WRAG ESA Will Be Cut By £30 A Week For New Claimants From 2017
Disability Rights UK’s latest e-newsletter, released this morning and seen by Same Difference, reveals:
Our thoughts following the Conservative Party Conference: Despite government statements that disability benefits will be protected from cuts, ESA for people in the WRAG group will be cut – by £30 a week for new claimants from 2017. This is a disability benefit, so the promise to protect such benefits is broken. Cutting ESA is shocking. It will drive more disabled people into poverty and will act as a disincentive to trying work. People who remain on the existing rate will know that, unless they are specifically protected, if they try work and they need to give it up for disability-related reasons, they will then be viewed as a new claimant, and go on to a benefit that is £30 less per week than they received before working. Where’s the positive incentive in that?
Same Difference understands that Parliament will debate the reduction in WRAG payments in the coming months.
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Less money more disabled will die less claimants and the government claims its policies are working in driving down disability claimants.
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