Trickster Coffey: she says disabled people should switch to Universal Credit – where they’ll be worse-off
Therese Coffey: you wouldn’t think she was trying to get her jollies by encouraging people to quit legacy benefits for Universal Credit with a false claim that they’ll be better-off, would you?
Did Therese Coffey get her doctorate in lying to people?
Having refused calls to extend the £20-per-week Universal Credit uplift to so-called “legacy benefits” that sick and disabled people receive – Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and others – she has suggested that they should claim UC instead.
People on Severe Disablement Premium (SDP) were unable to make that move until Wednesday (January 27) – when the Tories removed that barrier.
But charities have warned that this is a trap.
People with long-term illnesses and disabilities are more likely to lose money if they switch to UC and, once they have made the move, there is no going back.
It’s just another example of Tory discrimination against people with disabilities, that has reached new heights in the Covid-19 crisis, which they have used as an excuse for persecution.
People who’ve been on SDPs can get £120, £285 or £405 per month in transition payments – depending on their circumstances. But DWP officials have confirmed these payments “will be subject to erosion and cessation” over time.
And the Disability Rights UK group has claimed that, “after transitional help is eroded after time”, Universal Credit will be “significantly less generous” than legacy benefits for disabled people.
So the two-tier discrimination against people with disabilities in fact continues, no matter whether they are on “legacy benefits” or Universal Credit.
This Writer’s advice is clear: stay where you are. Don’t give Trickster Coffey the giggle she wants to get from hurting you.
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Sadly, I have no choice and will be switched to UC because of a change in circumstances. It’s really sickening and frightening.
That’s the flipside of this, of course – that a change of circumstances will tip people into the UC trap no matter what.
Christian she ain’t just another RTU IDs copie
The claimant should ask how much per month do I get now and how much will I get on UC then divide the weekly amount on the old fortnightly payment by 14 divide the monthly payment by 30 or 31 days.
I did mine and over a 30 day period,WRAG payment of £29.05 included plus other disability premiums, I would get £805.50 but on UC I would get considerably less. The government are trying to put the disabled into poverty.
Uc = misery,poverty,premature illness and death,Coffey,Patel and the rest of the nasty party favour a final solution to the’disability problem’