DWP rejection of benefit increase call proves conclusively: we’re NOT ‘all in it together’
The Department for Work and Pensions has rejected a call by its own advisors to increase benefits and help two million people get through the Covid-19 crisis.
The Tory government promised to increase the amounts of Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits payable to claimants, way back in March.
But people on the so-called “legacy” benefits like Employment and Support Allowance have been denied the same courtesy.
Ministers said this is because it would take too much time to implement.
What – a few keystrokes on a computer takes too much time to implement? I don’t believe it.
How do they manage the regular annual upgrades, then?
This Writer reckons the intention all along was to give a false impression to normally-working people who were thrown onto UC by the Covid crisis, that the benefits system provides an ample safety cushion to claimants in need. It doesn’t.
People on the “legacy” benefits already know the system is set up to punish people for being out of work, and therefore are deemed not to need an increase that is only for show, while the Covid contingent is claiming.
In other words: the Covid-related benefits boost is just another public-relations scam.
Getting people through the crisis is only its secondary function.
Its main purpose is to reassure Conservatives in the electorate.
If it dupes enough Tory voters into continuing to vote Tory, it will have done its job.
Source: DWP rejects own advisers’ call to up benefits to help two million through coronavirus pandemic
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It’s outrageous, but only what we would expect of the Tories aka The Nasty Party.