#welfare benefits

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 13

Melvyn Stride is Rishi Sunak’s new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Like many in Sunak’s government he has been accused of breaking the Ministerial Code, in his particular case by a cross-party inquiry who maintained he had misled Parliament regarding IR35 reforms. He was never disciplined.

DWP is responsible for the administration of the State Pension and working age benefits system, providing support to:

·                       people of working age

·                       employers

·                       pensioners

·                       families and children

·                       disabled people

 Strides parliamentary voting record holds little cheer for any of these five groups, especially poor pensioners. 

 The Guardian (17.03.22) reported that, “One in five pensioners - more than 2 million people- are living in relative poverty, in the UK, an increase of more than 200,000 in the past year alone.”

Stride has generally voted AGAINST welfare benefits in line with prices. He has almost always voted FOR a reduction in welfare spending. He has consistently voted AGAINST spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people. He has voted consistently FOR reducing housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have a spare bedroom. Even worse news for pensioners is this statement by Stride when Chair of the Treasury Committee:

"Over the last decade, the pensions triple lock has successfully protected the incomes of older people, who often have limited opportunities to increase their earnings. However, the ‘triple lock’ is unsustainable in its current form. A potential almost double-digit percentage rise is unrealistic and unfair, with knock-on effects for the public finances.”

(Voting record of Stride gratefully taken from Voting record - Mel Stride MP, Central Devon - TheyWorkForYou)

#uk politics #mel stride #rishi sunak #ministerial code #accountability #welfare benefits #public spending cuts #right-wing

[conveyancingsolicitorsgloucester]

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[fitzrovianews]

Help with the cost of living in Camden and Westminster

Help with the cost of living in Camden and Westminster

Help and advice with the cost of living is available from Camden and Westminster councils. Photo: fitzrovia News. Camden and Westminster councils have details of its services to help residents meet the increase in the cost of living. Camden Council has information on its website about applying for support including Council Tax benefit, and an energy bill rebate. There is also a list of…

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#cost of living #food banks #housing #welfare 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.”

#welfare #benefits #food stamps #welfare state #healthcare #health insurance #medicaid #health #pandemic #covid #joe biden #biden #donald trump #trump #usa #america #american politics #north america #politics

[alwaysbewoke]

#universal basic income #UBI #social welfare #unconditional transfer payment #means test #guaranteed minimum income #poverty line #full basic income #partial basic income #pilot projects #Mongolia #Iran #child benefit #pension #Bolsa Familia #Thamarat Program #economic crisis #COVID-19 pandemic #direct payments #Alaska Permanent Fund #negative income tax #NIT

[darkwood-sleddog]

you cannot fight against Animal Rights Activist bullshit for only certain circumstances and spew ARA rhetoric when a situation pulls at your heartstrings.

Agricultural animals can be kept and produce eggs, dairy, fiber, etc. ethically given they are provided proper housing, water, food, vet care and enrichment.

Given proper housing, water, food, vet care, and enrichment dogs can live fulfilling lives outside of the interior of the home. Extreme weather is NOT dangerous for specific breeds of dogs (this goes both ways for hot and cold temperatures).

Given proper housing, water, food, vet care, and enrichment wild animals can live full lives out of the wild and in the care of conservation focused zoos.

Anyways.

#dogblr #animal welfare #the 'keep your dogs inside!' is ARA propaganda make no mistake #ARAs have worked hard across many states of the US here and in other countries #to set restrictions on outside dogs #which will only benefit people like them #and come at great cost to people who work their dogs for a living #or have a hearty outdoors inclined breed #or many be in a situation where a tie-out is the BEST containment for their situation #so often makes poor people at a disadvantage as well #it is a line of thought created by PETA and like activists and i will not fucking have it in the house

[chronicallycouchbound]

I refuse to call government assistance programs “welfare” or “benefits”.

I’ve been on government assistance programs my whole life. I have never lived above the poverty line.

It’s a system that doesn’t care about my wellbeing, they care about doing the bare minimum to keep people alive enough to function and work, and if you’re disabled and cannot work, they give significantly less of a fuck.

And benefits?? What benefits?

Food stamps that run out within two weeks because I am budgeting with 8$ a day with literally dozens of dietary restrictions? Or do you mean the housing voucher that I have to never even have a gift card, penny to my name, Sams club membership, phone bill, literally anything that could be “income” in order to qualify? That same housing voucher system that if I mess up even once with I not only lose all government aid for at least 5 years, it’s also mandatory PRISON time for 1 year?? “Oh but they would never do that, right?” Nope! I have several friends who are now felons for minor lease violations and unhoused as a result! Oh maybe you mean the state health insurance that doesn’t cover most treatments, specialists, and testing I need and if I tried to make a gofundme to cover, I would lose aforementioned housing? Oh and we can’t forget all the money I get for being disabled, which is exactly 0$. I’m still fighting for SSI and have been for 6 years! That’s over 6 years with absolutely zero income. ZERO. And guess what, whenever I *do* get on SSI, I will lose my housing voucher. And I won’t be able to afford my current apartment because even in subsidized low income housing it’s too expensive for the maximum SSI “benefit” amount. And on SSI you can’t have savings over 2000$. Oh and they do make housing for people who are low income where you pay 30% of your income but I can’t even be on the waitlist since I don’t have any income. And on top of all this, I can never get married because I’ll lose all of the programs.

I could keep going. That’s not even half of the programs I’m a part of.

• None of them give me cash in hand. Even for vouchers I have to provide receipts for everything.

• Food stamps just straight up won’t even cover ineligible items. Which includes hot foods.

• I genuinely don’t believe that there’s a way to “game the system” and why would you? You would gain literally nothing.

• It’s designed to keep people poor. Once you make over a certain amount, you lose all or almost all benefits. There’s no way to slowly transition out of the programs, if you’re someone who’s able to. It’s all in or all out.

• All of these barriers are made significantly worse while unhoused/homeless. I’ve been homeless for over half of my life and there’s so many fucked up rules. If I missed one night staying in the shelter, I lost my housing voucher because I no longer was “verified as homeless” even if I was sleeping outside still.

#ranting #poverty #public welfare #welfare programs #government aid #government benefits #state benefits #disability benefits #SSI #disability #poor #poverty line #assistance #assistance programs #goverment assistance #usa specific #usa politics #chronically couchbound #poor people #classism #food stamps #ebt #housing vouchers #medicaid #state insurance #healthcare #health insurance #systemic poverty #forced poverty #welfare queen

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

...“It just so outrageous, really, that they choose to persecute a frail, sick old woman for what to them is a relatively small amount – for something that she was not capable of managing,” said Chitseko. “When the super-rich get away with millions, it’s the injustice of it, the unfairness of it. It’s just really upsetting and frustrating”.

...The case, one of dozens involving the families of unpaid carers who have spoken to the Guardian, is another example of Britain’s chronically disconnected welfare system.

The DWP would have known that Chitseko’s mother was no longer eligible for the severe disability premium because her daughter had given the department her mother’s national insurance number and other details when applying for a carer’s allowance.

The department could, in theory, have stopped the payments itself. Instead, it placed the burden on the recipient: in this case an elderly vulnerable woman with early stage dementia.

And when the DWP realised three years later that she had been overpaid a severe disability benefit, instead of asking whether the department was at fault or whether she ought to have known the rules given her age and illness, it sought immediately to claw back the money.

The DWP needs to be demolished and a humane benefits system built its place. No chance of that with the Tories or Labour, though. Both the Tory 'Government' (which isn't fit nor competent to govern) and the Labour 'Opposition' (which opposes nothing the Tories do but simply claims it could do those things better) have indicated further clampdowns on benefits claimants after the next election.

Fuck this bullying, ableist, ageist, mean-spirited shithole of a country.

#tw dwp #department for work and pensions #benefits #welfare #fuck the tories #fuck labour #uk politics

[earlgraytay]

the worst part of the Fuckery that has been happening is that I am triggered by, among other things, being punished for doing something I was told to do

and that is the definition of how ~means tested benefit programs~ work, especially if the numbers they're testing haven't been updated in decades

... if they want you to get off benefits and make a living

if the entire point is that, if you can work, you should be able to work

WHY THE FUCK AM I GETTING PUNISHED. FOR TRYING TO WORK. AND LIVE A MEANINGFUL LIFE. INSTEAD OF FUCKING ROTTING ON NOT-ENOUGH-MONEY PER MONTH.

#the earl speaks #the earl bitches and moans #welfare cw #welfare and benefits #screaming. forever.

[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

#Disabled is not a dirty word #ableism #disabled #disability #gym culture #disability rights #chronically ill #chronic illness #disability benefits #welfare #benefits

[scintillyyy]

when it's written that way because it's a patented chuck dixon -ism but it unintentionally creates a really interesting potential narrative for the character-

#still thinking of steph and class and knowing that dixon made her lower middle class on account of he's a classist #but how placing her in that nebulous position of between the have and the have nots #where they're too poor for comfort or stability and too rich for benefits #lends a lot to steph's anger at her situation #her desire to fit it and move up and separate herself from her origins #her showcase '95 story where she has a veneration of what she feels must be the comfort of the true middle class #and her veneration of her coach who she insists can't be anything like her mom #her anger and shame at her mom coming to her gymnastics meet because she doesn't like seeing that part of her life #interact with the better life she's trying to carve for herself #her activities as spoiler being so linked to her desire to throw away the legacy her father left her #that for everyone to say she's not good enough or shouldn't do it is for them to say #you are already where you belong and that thought terrifies her #a steph who grew up hearing sarcastic remarks about those welfare recipients who can afford nicer food than them #while her mom works and gets no help and and struggles for it #a steph who internalizes that no one is going to help her and if she wants it she has to work for and take it #which leads to some bitterness when she sees everyone else such as tim and cass receive the help and support she's always denied #but also only motivates her to keep going harder. if no one will help you you have to help yourself. #what ugly biases might she potentially have as a result of this upbringing #it's like i hate it it's such a conservative story of bootstraps #but i love it because gives such potentially interesting things to play with in steph's arc

[anotherpapercut]

if you're curious about the state of welfare in the us rn I was denied for financial assistance bc my income is too low. so I have to pay full price if I want insurance bc.... I can't afford help???

#obviously i benefit immensely from being in the imperial core and i know its like this or worse in so many places #theres just something about the way legislators in my state talk CONSTANTLY about the 'welfare state' #and yet im literally too poor to get insurance. i was also denied for medicaid and i literally have no idea why #i will soon be earning more money most likely so idebjs??? ig i should reapply?? idk

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Put the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill!

104 so far! Help us get to 250 signers!

I’m calling on you to stand with working people, passengers and our communities by supporting Good Jobs for Good Airports standards (GJGA) in the FAA reauthorization bill. Airports should and can be strong, vibrant drivers of good jobs in every part of our country. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards are central to that mission and our nation’s future prosperity. Billions of our public dollars are invested in our nation’s aviation system every year, and we must ensure that our public resources serve the public good. That includes ensuring airports better serve the needs of our families, our passengers, our communities and the airport service workers who make it all possible.

It is evident that our air travel industry is in crisis. From record flight cancellations during summer travel peaks to mountains of lost luggage during the holiday travel season. Airports are critical publicly-funded infrastructure vital to the health of our local communities and global economy, but right now airports aren't working the way they should for travelers or airport service workers — a largely Black, brown, multiracial and immigrant service workforce. These working people, including cleaners, wheelchair agents, baggage handlers, concessionaires and ramp workers, keep airports safe and running smoothly even through a global pandemic, climate disasters and busy travel seasons. Yet many are underpaid and underprotected--even as some major airlines rake in record profit and billions of our tax dollars are invested in our national air travel system.

Domestic passenger numbers increased by 80% between 2020 and 2021, total industry employment fell by nearly 14%, leaving airport service workers to sometimes clean entire airplanes in as little as five minutes as many take on additional responsibilities outside of their typical job duties. Meanwhile, wages have barely budged for airport service workers in 20 years. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards has the power to transform workers’ lives by ensuring airport service workers have the pay and benefits they need to care for their families.

The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards would help build a stronger, safer, more resilient air travel industry by making airport service jobs good jobs with living wages and benefits like affordable healthcare for all airport workers. Airport service workers at more than 130 covered airports would be supported through established wage and benefit standards, putting money back into hundreds of local economies and helping families thrive. If passed over 73% of wage increases will go to workers making $20 or less, estimates show.

I urge you to include the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill, and help ensure our public money serves the public good.

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[headpainmigraine]

They're 100% gonna block me, but just to stop anyone giving them money, @daydream-gem is a scammer

I tried tirelessly to provide =non-monetary= assistance to them years (literal years) ago, which expended time and effort that I don't have as an actually disabled person

They didn't reply, didn't update, and when I asked about it, they blocked me.

Don't give this lying piece of trash anything, they're just siphoning off help that actual people in need could use, many of those people being YOU.

I know the disabled community especially wants to help fellow disabled people, but most of us are on benefits.

Don't give what little you have to this long-time predatory scammer.

#spoonies #chronic illness #disability #financial aid #donation scam #ebegging #daydreamgemz #daydream gemz #trash person #cripplepunk #lgbtq+ community #idk who else shes targeting #welfare and benefits #community support

[chronicallycouchbound]

“Benefits” my ass.

These are mandatory forms for General Assistance, which pays for my rent, household needs ($45) and some food (100$).

I am disabled and have been fighting for SSI since 2017. Once I am eventually approved, I have to use my backpay to pay back a portion of this (about 1/3 of my backpay, my lawyer gets another 1/3, I get whats left).

In order to have housing (after YEARS of homelessness) I have to waive my rights to confidentiality for my own medical records.

Note that “phone bills” are misspent money. I am entirely reliant on someone else’s kindness to be on their phone plan. This had to be approved by my GA caseworker. I NEED a phone, not just for my dozens of appointments to manage my life threatening chronic health conditions and serious mental illnesses, but also to call the pharmacy, to call my landlord, DHHS, heating assistance programs, case management and therapy, AND, of course, for my monthly general assistance appointment. Yes. They REQUIRE me to have a phone AND I cannot pay for it. I have zero income since I’m unable to work anyways.

What happens if I “misuse” these theoretical funds? Federal prison time, a mandatory minimum of 1 year, PLUS disqualification of all government services for up to 5 years.

So yeah, “Benefits” my ass.

#chronically couchbound #disability #disabled #poverty #forced poverty #government aid #goverment assistance #goverment benefits #public welfare #social welfare #welfare programs #assistance programs #government assistance #dhhs #general assistance #impoverished #poor #zero income #low income #actually zero income #homeless #unhoused #homelessness #houselessness

[chrissterry]

Your Life, Your Country, Your World

No matter who we are we will be affected by all of the above in many ways, irrespective of being able to influence or not. Many of us will have enough just to deal with our own life, let alone the others, but these others will affect how our lives progress. You can ‘bury your head in the sand’, but that won’t mean you will not be affected by all areas, you may not wish to know and then whatever…

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#funding #stress #welfare benefits