It seems to me that the disabled (among other disadvantaged groups) have borne a disproportionate burden of "austerity". After a series of measure which make it more difficult to claim benefits it now seems that the government want to reduce Employment and Support Allowance sickness benefit for new claimants.
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A bit part of the problem is that the government has protected large parts of expenditure from austerity. The NHS is one part and of course the "triple lock" on the state pension (that the pension will increase by the greatest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%) has ensured that the social security bill will increase in real terms.
Personally although I think it's important that the elderly poor get enough money to live comfortably, it makes no sense for people like Daddy Don who have a generous superannuated pension to get an increasingly large state pension that he doesn't really need.
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A bit part of the problem is that the government has protected large parts of expenditure from austerity. The NHS is one part and of course the "triple lock" on the state pension (that the pension will increase by the greatest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%) has ensured that the social security bill will increase in real terms.
Personally although I think it's important that the elderly poor get enough money to live comfortably, it makes no sense for people like Daddy Don who have a generous superannuated pension to get an increasingly large state pension that he doesn't really need.
via International Skeptics Forum http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=284838&goto=newpost
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