If you ever needed to know that #Labour are just as evil as the #Tories here's why, and here's why they're still attacking the disabled, the vulnerable and the poor.
It's because they not happy being slaves to their corporate masters.
So this is what's currently happening to a friend of mine.
He's got a letter from the DWP, telling him that his ESA will end in the middle of July and he needs to apply for Universal credit.
He starts panicking, he doesn't know what to do.
After a few weeks of ignoring it, he finally gets up the courage to ask me for help. He doesn't have any family he can turn too for help as they all... to put it bluntly, thick as pig shit and treat him (the most intelligent person in his entire extended family) as some kind of leper, because he's capable of actual independent thought and doesn't believe every he reads on facebook.
So I look into it.
He's on ESA, in the support group, gets PIP and the disability premium on his ESA. The ESA, with the disability premium is worth about £480 every two weeks.
Universal credit is about £383 every two weeks.
However, they top up the UC so that he will still get that same £480 every two weeks... and he can still ask for his money to be paid bi weekly instead of monthly as they want it... All good you might think, he's not going to lose a penny at all... and he's not.
This year.... but every year afterwards will see him fall further into poverty.
Here's why.
That top up to keep his benefit the same as now, is because they've abolished the disability premium... which is awarded to people who live alone and have no carer. The people who need that extra money the most... fuck em, let em suffer is still the attitude of govt.
So what that means... is that as the UC is increased each year... that top up, gets reduced by the same amount.
So that £480 he gets every two weeks.. stays at £480 until the UC of £383 reaches the same £480.
To put that in perspective... the avg increase in UC is about £3 or 4, every two weeks.... PER YEAR!!! £97 difference, divided by £3 would be 32 years, divided by £4 would be 24 years.
Imagine never getting a penny extra for 24yrs when you are a disabled person, unable to work, approaching 60yrs old who last had a job nearly 15yrs ago and was fired because of his health... and who had to wait a further 7 years before they actually awarded him disability.
He lived in extreme poverty for years, not able to heat his home, buy clothes or feed himself properly.
It's a fucking disgrace, I am outraged about this. Further proof that the labour scum bags are fucking over the poor, the disabled and anyone who isn't some wage slave to a corporate overlord who pays them shit wages, hoards all of the profits and doesn't pay as much money as the minimum wage staff they treat as disposable slaves.
So now I have to help him sort out this UC application... thankfully it doesn't affect his PIP and that will still go up each year... by an avg of about £2 every 2 weeks.
All his bills still rise, cost of energy goes up all the time, his council tax goes up every year. He's got 10yrs left before he can get his state pension., which at least is about £50 more every two weeks... and I think I can save him some money on his council tax as he's only getting the 25% single/disabled discount, and I think he's entitled to the full CT benefit. That could cut his CT bill by another £50 a month.
But... fuck them all.
#FuckTheTories
#FuckLabour
#ScumBags
#TheDisabledAreHumanToo
