#benefits

[feckcops]

Joe Biden Is Shrinking the Welfare State

“By the estimates of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 15 million people are going to lose their health insurance over the next few months, including 5.3 million kids. Worse, based on historical trends, 6.8 million of those people will lose their Medicaid coverage in spite of still being eligible for it simply because of bureaucratic trifles ...

“The effects of the declaration’s end will go well beyond this, affecting working people’s ability to get free tests, vaccines, and affordable treatment for the virus. It also means the end of extra food stamps, another generous program set to continue as long as the emergency exists and a vital lifeline for working people struggling to keep up with grocery bills in the face of inflation ...

“From a practical and moral standpoint, this is obviously a travesty. But it’s also a needless own goal for the president, putting an already deeply unpopular Biden in the position of running for reelection in a year’s time with millions of people losing their health insurance — and his potential Republican opponent being able to boast he’d been the one to extend it to them in the first place. More than that, it makes a mockery of his frequent public statements insisting that his administration will ‘continue to fight for racial justice,’ since, as the HHS, acknowledges, 15 percent of those who are about to lose their coverage as a result of his decision are black and one-third are Latino ...

“If the idea is that Americans are now tired of thinking and caring about the pandemic, making supporting any COVID-related policies politically toxic, then this is the wrong way to go about unwinding those. Americans didn’t hate that the pandemic response included protecting them from being kicked out of their homes by greedy landlords, getting financial support for the government while they were unemployed, or having health insurance and a variety of other health care needs guaranteed.”

[purpleweredragon]

[autumneldermore]

Hey guys, IRL Autumn here. As much as I'd love to be here with my usual jokes, This is something much more serious.

For those who don't know, the UK government has recently announced plans to cut Disabled benefits by 4.6K a year if a person isn't or won't find a work from home position.

To massively simplify the current system, Disabled benefits have 2 levels of pay, depending on your capacity for work. Those who are deemed fully incapable of work get full pay, and those who can work part time, or in a select few low impact workplaces get half pay.

The new system would require everyone no matter where they lay on that scale to find employment. For the thousands, if not millions of people that have been declared fully incapable of work, this means bending over backwards for an impossible task.

And the pay cut for those who "refuse" to comply (which in reality is the vast majority being completely unable to comply to impossible demands) is not an insignificant amount.

That is a payment reduction of over half of what that person currently recieves. An amount that already is barely sufficient to survive on.

Being disabled is inherently expensive, be it due to needing specialized equipment, specific transport needs or even specific needs in general day-to-day living.

This is not a scheme to help the current system which is admittedly underfunded. This is a system designed to force disabled people to sacrifice themselves for an unsustainable system, or die trying.

And believe me, there will be death.

This is a deliberate target of some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

This is not "toughing through the hard times for the good of the country"

This is a slaughter.

[canadda-uk]

The UK government is being criticised after a Department for Work and Pensions video was released on Twitter alongside the caption: “‘We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice’ – minister for disabled people Tom Pursglove.

“At DWP we have a very particular set of skills that we use in conjunction with the police to tackle fraud,” it continued.

The warning is an apparent reference to a scene in the film taken, starring Liam Neeson, in which he threatens the drug gang which has kidnapped his daughter.

In the DWP video, at least half a dozen officers are seen ascending a staircase before making an arrest on an alleged benefit fraudster. All the while action film-like music is playing in the background.

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman said: “We know benefit fraud makes up a minuscule amount of money lost to the system. This is just grotesque targeting of the already vulnerable.”

[misskaboom]

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[ridenwithbiden]

UNION Yes !

[chimielie]

any modern au where gojo and geto are roommates is so funny to me because there is no universe, curses or not, where gojo satoru isn’t filthy rich. which means that he’s just doing that because he wants to be around his bestie 24/7 which is completely in character even if it’s just a background plot device

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Society ladies on Park Avenue selling tickets to a fair at Luna Park, Coney Island, May 16, 1922. Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (?!) is selling tickets at a kiosk.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Which of these would you target?

And which of these do you think the UK government is making scary ads about and targeting?

[renphousa]

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[chronicallyuniconic]

📢🗣️ In case anyone doesn't know, in the UK, warm home discount has changed & you have to ring 0800 107 8004 to apply for the £150 discount, instead of going via your supplier 📢🗣️

You will need your electricity account information available & you only have until the 28th February 2023.

Lines open 8am to 6pm.

✨Share to your low income friends & family so they can stay warm for the rest of the winter without having to worry about debt. We can do this together✨

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[bisexualseraphim]

I just with mine own eyes saw someone say that calling gym culture ableist is the REAL ableism because they know a guy with Down’s Syndrome and one arm that goes to the gym sometimes.

Gym culture in and of itself may not be ableist, but you know what is? Telling disabled people that they can and should go to the gym just because you know an amputee or someone in a wheelchair who lifts. Physically disabled people who can exercise that heavily and often without severe exhaustion or pain is a fucking anomaly.

“Disabled people can exercise just as easily as able-bodied people and also work as hard and often and have hardly any struggles actually” is really not the allyship you think it is in a world where the government will look at a fucking paraplegic with epilepsy and a heart condition and declare them ‘fit for work’ and act all shocked when the person eventually collapses from exhaustion and dies suddenly and prematurely.

The word is ‘disabled’ for a reason you absolute brainless wankwads and it’s not a dirty word

[aerichaedesu]

Taeyeon – Benefit Cosmetics Korea 2023

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

The Tories have ruined the economy (as in the real one that ordinary people have to live in, not hedge fund wankers), let wages stagnate, done nothing to mitigate the cost of living, sold off and demolished more social housing than they've built, allowed the private sector rental market to become the Wild West, underfunded public services and let the NHS stagger towards oblivion - including its mental health services, where early intervention is key to preventing long-term illness but 1.9m people are on waiting lists for treatment.

But fuck that, eh, we're all workshy scroungers.

BTW, this is only the latest of the many recent attacks by politicians and the media on people with mental and neurodevelopmental conditions. That feature of any self-respecting liberal's newspaper rack, The Guardian, ran a story not long ago about 'over-diagnosis' of autism, despite every indicator suggesting it's probably under-diagnosed, again especially when you consider how many people are sitting on waiting lists for assessment. I sense the establishment, Tory and Labour, is putting out feelers to gauge the public mood around further cuts to support for those of us with conditions they can dismiss as 'over-diagnosed' or 'just a normal reaction to the ups and downs of life'.

[geargoyle]

I am so so happy that this went through. I know we were sharing the comment links when this was being proposed. And it WORKED! One step at a time we can make things better!