Concessions offered over disability benefit changes

[dipsydoodle]

Ministers are set to make concessions over controversial proposed changes to disability benefits.

The government is backing an amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill halving the time seriously ill or disabled people will have to wait to be eligible for Personal Independence Payments (PIPs).

This would reduce the qualifying period for the benefit from six to three months.

It comes after peers defeated the coalition over other welfare changes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16573348

[LeftishBrit]

1. Good! - though there's a lot more to be done

One of the vilest things about this government is its scapegoating of sick and disabled people.

'We have a very, very big welfare bill and we need to bring it down'

Then spend more on job creation and don't cut existing jobs! The only real cure for benefit dependency is jobs. No use 'making work pay' when there's no work.

Also we *could* cut on 'welfare' to the bankers; but that's something they won't let happen. Much easier to trample on the chronically ill!

[LeftishBrit]

2. The coalition should think again about cuts in disability benefits

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/16/coalition-cuts-disability-benefits?newsfeed=true