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Government Plans To Stop All Social Security Payments For Claimants If Seen Not Making Enough Effort To Find Employment

It appears that the government is going full throttle with their let’s punish unemployed people as much as possible until they give up plans.

They now plan to completely stop unemployed claimants of all of their social security payments if they appear to be refusing to look for employment.

Not content with this if their plans come to fruition they will also be stripped of their right to free prescriptions and discounted bus travel, the Chancellor has announced.

According to the Chancellor this will be the biggest welfare shake-up for a decade.

If they appear to be making no effort to find work will be kicked out of the system after six months.

Those who do engage but have still not found a job after 18 months will be forced to take on work or forfeit their benefits.

According to Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, the reforms should be seen as a “huge investment” in employment, rather than a “savings exercise”.

Yeah right it’s all about saving money and making the poorest and most in need pay the most financially.


As part of the proposed reforms claimants that claim the basic rate of Universal Credit who are fit to work but refuse to engage for six months will have their claims closed completely.

I repeat the government will also take away ALL of their monthly allowance and their rights to receive  free NHS prescriptions, dental care, legal aid and bus and rail discounts.

I don’t need to say how much of a dangerous precedent this is setting. Many decisions made by DWP work coaches are based on their opinion and are not based on fact.

So if in their opinion they aren’t making enough effort All and I repeat ALL of their payments will stop.

If this goes ahead they will literally leave people to starve, live in cold damp properties and force thousands onto the streets.

We already know Job Coaches aren’t always sympathetic towards claimants that are struggling even when they are ill or have other genuine reasons as to why they’re struggling.

If in their opinion it’s not good enough every payment could be stopped. As we know there is a shortage of well paid suitable employment.

People just can’t accept any job especially if their circumstances don’t allow them to.

I know I’m repeating myself here but I do feel that this will push thousands of people over the edge, living in distress unable to cope.

The government may as well just admit their massive hatred for unemployed, vulnerable and disabled people.

The very fact that they want to take money away from people leaving them with absolutely nothing just to save them money is about as low as they can go.

Under no circumstances should the public be punished for the shit decisions the government has made. The UK is in a mess, going through a recession, even though they won’t admit to this.

Foreign countries no longer want to invest in the UK and who can blame them. The UK stock market is in a really bad shape and still the government refuses to do anything about this, hell they don’t even want to admit it.

Unemployed people haven’t wrecked the UK and they certainly shouldn’t be punished for their mistakes either.

It’s virtually a death sentence and this needs to be challenged by everyone right now and with the greatest urgency because people will die and this is no exaggeration.

And yes I’m not just angry I’m furious.

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8 thoughts on “Government Plans To Stop All Social Security Payments For Claimants If Seen Not Making Enough Effort To Find Employment”

  1. Hang on a minute, I’m wondering now if this isn’t all just more Tory bluster to placate the Daily Mail reading Tory voters. If Hunt wanted to introduce new Benefits conditions and alter the rules wouldn’t that have to go through Parliament? Surely they can’t just ramp up DWP brutality on a whim without it being enshrined in law by both Houses. Unless Hunt is really referring to the 2025/26 plans to force the sick & disabled to engage with the world of work in some way, possibly working from home has been mentioned, to get their Benefits? If so it might never happen, that would need Parliamentary approval too and in any case the Tories might be out of government by then. I wouldn’t put it past Starmer/Reeves to go along with it though.

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      1. That’s true, and thanks for all the work you do in opposing and exposing them. I’m just struggling to make sense of it all, which is difficult because nothing they do or say makes any sense!

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  2. I don’t mean to be flippant in any way, it’s utterly disgusting what’s happening, but to push these plans into fruition they better recruit the work roaches and additional staff!! There isn’t even enough staff to monitor all those working under 35 hours a week now. And they might not get back in next election.
    On another note, you may remember in August I did the interview with Lancaster university about insecure low paid work. This will be seen by the government, for all the good that will do, they have also asked me if I would speak with the I newspaper about the cost of living crisis, which I will do as I can be anonymous and don’t have to give photos

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  3. Now that the unelected, I killed over 300,000 with austerity, Cameron is back in one of the highest positions in government, maybe what Braverman taught the rest of them is that shiny high class extreme xenophobia is much more effective than her in yer face barking extremism. This new wave austerity for the poor will carry on Cameron’s legacy for murder on the sly? I used to count Cameron’s death count in multiples of the population of the village I live in, 300,000 is the equivalent of wiping out the village 45 times, with barely a bloody murmur.

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  4. I heard this on yesterday’s BBC news, or caught some of it, I thought he was talking about the sick & disabled, those claiming Low Capability for Work UC, or equivalent. I didn’t realise he was aiming this at every claimant! The whole thing is insane. It will lead to thousands more homeless, a big increase in suicides, increase in crime, increase in arrears in utility bills and rent. I’m still on old style JSA so all I legally have to do is apply for some jobs each week and provide evidence, which I do. I should be on some form of sickness Benefits but as we all know that’s not easy these days. I think I’ve had about 8 hospital appointments this year including 2 this week, and have several more to come. I have been diagnosed with a fairly serious incurable illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis, which at one time would have been an automatic sick note guaranteed, but not any more! I also have a Hernia and have just recovered from a bleeding stomach ulcer. There’s a prevailing attitude among the Right-wing that everyone claiming to be ill are lying shirkers swinging the lead.

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