#welfarereform — Public Fediverse posts

Britain can’t train its way out of the NEETs crisis

Share this article This morning the Guardian reported ‘Number of young people in UK not in work or…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #apprenticeships #economicgrowth #economicinactivity #ifs #incapacitybenefits #JobsGuarantee #labourmarket #NEETs #ONS #ResolutionFoundation #UniversalCredit #vacancies #welfarereform #youthunemployment
https://www.europesays.com/britain/112808/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/112808/ Britain can’t train its way out of the NEETs crisis #apprenticeships #Britain #EconomicGrowth #EconomicInactivity #ifs #IncapacityBenefits #JobsGuarantee #LabourMarket #NEETs #ONS #ResolutionFoundation #UniversalCredit #vacancies #WelfareReform #YouthUnemployment

https://www.europesays.com/people/167682/ Andy Burnham eyes to finish the job he couldn’t in 2009 — fixing UK’s broken social care system – Firstpost #AndyBurnham #AndyBurnhamSocialCareReform #England #healthcare #Labour #NHS #SocialCareSystem #UKPrimeMinister #WelfareReform

Britain’s next chancellor needs a chainsaw

Share this article Britain’s spending and tax choices now fall to John Healey. My expectation? Higher spending, higher…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #bankofengland #Chancellor #column #corporationtax #fiscalpolicy #JohnHealey #NationalInsurance #OfficeforBudgetResponsibility #publicspending #StatePension #taxcuts #Triplelock #welfarereform
https://www.europesays.com/britain/89286/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/89286/ Britain’s next chancellor needs a chainsaw #BankOfEngland #Britain #Chancellor #column #CorporationTax #FiscalPolicy #JohnHealey #NationalInsurance #OfficeForBudgetResponsibility #PublicSpending #StatePension #TaxCuts #TripleLock #WelfareReform

Review highlights flaws in disability benefit system, calls for overhaul

📰 Original title: Disability benefit not fit for purpose, minister leading review says

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/review-highlights-flaws-in-disability-benefit-system-calls-for-overhaul.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait_uk.mastodon_world

#politics #disabilitybenefits #governmentreview #welfarereform

OBR: Britain is going bankrupt in slow motion

Share this article The OBR’s latest Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report, published this week, gives a blunt assessment…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Ageingpopulation #AndyBurnham #austerity #economicgrowth #fiscalpolicy #fiscalsustainability #governmentdebt #NHSspending #OBR #pensionreform #Productivity #publicspending #taxpolicy #UKpublicfinances #welfarereform
https://www.europesays.com/britain/79562/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/79562/ OBR: Britain is going bankrupt in slow motion #AgeingPopulation #AndyBurnham #austerity #Britain #EconomicGrowth #FiscalPolicy #FiscalSustainability #GovernmentDebt #NHSSpending #OBR #PensionReform #Productivity #PublicSpending #TaxPolicy #UKPublicFinances #WelfareReform

Is the US Adopting UK-Style Welfare Reform? Analysts Are Worried

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/07/department-for-work-and-pensions-global.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #Global #WorldNews #BreakingNews #GlobalAffairs #WelfareReform #EconomicPolicy #SocialSecurity

https://www.europesays.com/britain/48350/ POLL: Should Britain cut benefit payments? Vote now | Politics | News #BenefitPayments #Benefits #BritainWelfareDebate #ChildBenefit #LabourMinisters #UK #UKPolitics(section) #UnitedKingdom #WelfareReform

https://www.europesays.com/dk/78671/ National Coalition Party plans tobacco ban and new rules for immigrants #Finland #FinlandPolitics #healthcare #helsinki #Immigration #Kokoomus #LabourReform #municipalities #NationalCoalitionParty #PetteriOrpo #SocialSecurity #TobaccoBan #UniversityFees #WelfareReform

Conservative Party Proposes Stringent Limits on Benefit Eligibility

Conservative Party proposes removing PIP automatic exemption from UK benefit cap. Households must work 16+ hours weekly. Affects disabled people and families.

#BenefitCap, #PIP, #ConservativeParty, #WelfareReform, #UKPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/uk-benefit-cap-pip-exemption-removal-work/

The Conservative Party wants to change the benefit cap. Households with disabled people will lose automatic exemption, meaning they might need to work 16 hours a week to get full benefits. This is a big change from the current rules.

#BenefitCap, #PIP, #ConservativeParty, #WelfareReform, #UKPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/uk-benefit-cap-pip-exemption-removal-work/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/21216/ Nigel Farage issues ‘riot’ warning as he declares war on benefits UK | UK | News #BenefitsCuts #NigelFarage #ReformUK #UK #UnitedKingdom #WelfareReform

🧑‍🏫 Join us THIS THURSDAY for our #CPCCGWebinar with Jan Einhoff @MPIDR and Vincent Ramos (University of #Southampton).

They will discuss findings that show how #welfare retrenchment may play a role in stalling the transition to #residential independence disproportionately among the most vulnerable #youngadults in the #labourmarket.

Register to join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/980/CPC_CG_Webinar__Jan_Einhoff_Vincent_Ramos

#WelfareReform #UniversalCredit #Austerity #YoungAdults #Unemployment #Housing #Inequality #SocialPolicy

https://www.europesays.com/uk/842750/ The Conservative party is back to rescue Britain from clueless Labour | Politics | News #Britain #ConservativeParty #Economy #England #GreatBritain #JamesCleverly #LabourParty #NorthernIreland #Scotland #UK #UKEconomy #UnitedKingdom #Wales #WelfareReform

https://www.europesays.com/uk/682306/ DWP update as benefit cap change process to start today | Personal Finance | Finance #Business #ChildBenefit #ChildPoverty #Children'sMentalHealth #DWP #Finance #LabourGovernment #LabourParty #PersonalFinance #ReformUK #TwoChildBenefitCap #UK #UnitedKingdom #WelfareReform

https://www.europesays.com/uk/622543/ Kemi Badenoch brands Britain’s bloated benefit bill ‘economic suicide’ | Politics | News #Benefits #Business #disabilities #DisabilityBenefits #DWP #Economy #KemiBadenoch #UK #UKBenefitsSystem #UnitedKingdom #WelfareReform

https://www.europesays.com/ie/223983/ Kemi Badenoch brands Britain’s bloated benefit bill ‘economic suicide’ | Politics | News #Benefits #Business #disabilities #DisabilityBenefits #DWP #Economy #Éire #IE #Ireland #KemiBadenoch #UKBenefitsSystem #WelfareReform

Migration to Europe isn’t slowing because the incentives haven’t changed. Welfare access and weak enforcement keep the system under pressure. Read the article ➤ https://reimmigrazione.com/2025/11/16/why-migration-to-europe-will-not-decrease-the-essential-role-of-welfare-and-security-in-the-new-paradigm/
The podcast explains how ReImmigration reframes the entire debate.
#Immigration #ReImmigration #Europe #WelfareReform #PodcastEpisode

The hidden history of demonizing SNAP recipients : Code Switch : NPR
#SNAP #TANF #AFDC #welfare #WelfareReform #Clinton #Reagan #WelfareQueen
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5600027/the-hidden-history-of-demonizing-snap-recipients

‘MASSIVE FRAUD’: Trump admin sounds alarm on SNAP program abuse (Video)

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss widespread fraud in the SNAP benefits program. #foxnews #news #brookerollins #snap #fraud #massivefraud #foxandfriends #usda #welfare #foodstamps #trumpadministration #government #accountability #corruption #politics #supremecourt #taxpayer #breakingnews #rollins #agriculture #scandal #governmentwaste #welfarereform…

https://www.latestnewsx.com/video/massive-fraud-trump-admin-sounds-alarm-on-snap-program-abuse-video/

Democratic Party Leadership Still Refuses to Address the Root of Inequality

https://murica.website/2025/10/democratic-party-leadership-still-refuses-to-address-the-root-of-inequality/

City grandee sounds bond markets alarm as borrowing costs hit new high

Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle has sparked uncertainty on the markets – Simon Dawson /Crown Lord O’Neill, the former…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #autumnbudget #bondmarket #borrowingcosts #Business #Financialmarkets #LordO’Neill #officeforbudgetresponsibility #RachelReeves #SimonDawson #SirKeirStarmer #UK #UnitedKingdom #welfarereform
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/110347/

Labour's internal strife intensifies as Starmer suspends MPs opposing welfare cuts. Is unity trumping compassion? #LabourLeadership #WelfareReform #PoliticalDissent

https://thetrainingnet.com/survives-it/

@HarriettMB

You're absolutely right; it's completely ridiculous.

I don't understand what they hope to achieve.

You mention history, but think how many times they've had to backtrack in the last year, the backlash from #WinterFuel and #WelfareReform... It's as though they've got a death wish... Or do they really think they can push through a Trump-style state if they're just sufficiently determined?

That said, a country that voted for #Brexit, put the likes of Johnson in power...🤷🏻‍♀️

And if you are wondering why the beancounters at the Treasury didn’t think they needed to consult key stakeholders(#disability organisations and charities) in their so called #WelfareReform proposals before putting it out for public consumption…well that would be because #Economics students (of whom the Treasury is composed) think their subject is amoral, morality simply doesn’t come into their decision making.

Well, if my health tracker is to be believed, I had 3 hours 27 minutes #sleep last night.

Exactly what I needed to face another day of caring and dealing with #UniversalCreditMigration on behalf of 'my person'.

Happy Thursday everyone. Blue sky and the sun is shining, which is lovely, though I heard a piece saying reservoirs are only half-full which sounds scary. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#WelfareReform has created quite the atmosphere. Really hard to shake off the feeling of #Doom

Don't know how I'll sleep tonight. My average has been poor on a 'good' day. Today has not been a good day. As for the vulnerable person in my life... it's unlikely they'll sleep at all, going by past experience.

Thank you #LiNO

I was sceptical there'd be hope after your promises of #Change

I was not wrong.

Back to who knows how many hours on hold tomorrow...

#WelfareReform #UniversalCreditMigration

@skua

Thank you. I feel supported by your comments.

I've been beating myself up, annoyed that I allowed myself to be baited and trying to convince myself it was 'him not me'.

As any long-term carer will no doubt agree, one is exhausted in the first place without additional burdens/hoops to jump through.

#WelfareReform #UniversalCreditMigration

AWFUL, HORRIBLE experience calling the Universal Credit line on behalf of a vulnerable family member...

Robotic individual who answered was extremely unhelpful, kept talking over me and eventually put the 'phone down on me!

And no, I wasn't abusive, didn't swear at him... but WHAT THE F*CK?

I think the atmosphere/environment created by the political class, supported by the media is at play here...

So more hours on hold tomorrow as I try to resolve the situation.

#WelfareReform #LiNO

Had to switch off 'Politics Live'... then got distracted by some domestics...

#WelfareReform

Cd the BBC offer presenters more blatantly biased than Vicki Young? Yarping at and interrupting Stella Creasy.

SC "Are you suggesting we should use 'phone-ins as the basis for evidence...?" (Nice one!)

VY "But people will be watching this who know people who shouldn't be getting PIP" (Heard of 'invisible disabilities' Vicki?)

Yeah Vicki, the well-known experts down the pub! FFS!

#WelfareReform

Watching 'Newsnight'... might have to turn it off... not sure my blood pressure can bear it...

#WelfareReform

Ian Byrne 👏🏻

#StarmerIsATory , he is totally inept, has no principles. It is long past time he was gone.

Change? What change? He's dishing up more of the same and not even in a competent fashion!

He looks like a fool and is making other people make idiots of themselves.

I know I'm not coherent! So angry!

3/3

(Can't bring myself to include the Farage gang.)

#WelfareReform

2/3

#WelfareReform

Liz Kendall talking absolute bollocks...

Something about Starmer "securing" a win... No, he absolutely did not.

The 'Tories lost the election, Labour didn't 'win'.

Whatever goodwill people felt has been thrown away. I can't see them coming back from this.

#LiNO #WelfareReform

@HarriettMB

... I didn't complete it, due to the concerns of my person on how the information might be used and whether it would genuinely be anonymous.

The fact that they knew I hadn't completed it doesn't preclude anonymity, but it doesn't provide confidence either.

#WelfareReform #PIPReview #LiNO #StarmerIsATory

@HarriettMB

I understand cabinet responsibility, but in the case of #WelfareReform , surely a matter of morals and integrity, I don't know how they can remain in position and sleep at night.

Regarding 'consultation', I have received two letters and two telephone calls asking me to complete a questionnaire on behalf of the person for whom I care, supposedly anonymously, on how they use their PIP income.

#PIPReview

In a very strange state of mind today and have very little motivation (hence mindless scrolling...)

Wonder if it's just my body trying to recover from yesterday's heat?

The 10 degrees lower is very welcome, but since my thyroid was removed I struggle with temperature regulation.

Mind you, the anxiety over the #WelfareReform bill is not helping. I know the person for whom I care is in a state of terror, and I'm not far behind for their sake.

#LiNO

I absolutely detest #StarmerIsATory

"We ask you to reconsider the proposals, delay plans for legislation until a full impact assessment has been completed, and implement measures which alleviate, rather than exacerbate, the poverty that carers currently experience."

#WelfareReform

#WelfareReform

"We write to express our deep concern regarding key aspects of the Government’s welfare reform proposals. These changes will see an unprecedented cut to benefits for unpaid carers and a significant reduction in household income for disabled people and their families."

https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/our-campaigns/disability-and-health-benefits-cuts/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-on-welfare-reform/?utm_source=Carers UK&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=15072678_Protect Carers Benefits Now email July 1 campaigners inc open signatures&dm_i=74C,8Z25I,T9VD47,11GDBO,1

I'm regretting I've not done enough on this topic, and I doubt this will be of much help, but it's something.

#WelfareReform

https://the.organise.network/surveys/pip-reform-urgent-june-tactics

https://bsky.app/profile/jessicaelgot.bsky.social/post/3lsq665hjh22i

#LiNO #WelfareReform

So "In 2024 a single person needed to earn £28,000 for minimum acceptable standard of living". Anyone care to guess how much a single person receives on Universal Credit?

Then can you tell me how the hell they survive, because I have no clue how they do it?

Every MP who votes for #WelfareReform should be made to exist on that sum, without access to any savings, for at least a year.

F'ing #Parasites

https://bsky.app/profile/premnsikka.bsky.social/post/3lshjrsd7p22s

#Equality #Inequality #InequalityKills #LiNO

@Geri

I haven't heard anyone focus on Cameron/Osbourne's austerity and the Johnson government's legacy mis-handling COVID.

I haven't looked, but should research the reasons for the increasing numbers disabled by their own government.

They clearly think the plebs are expendable.

#Eugenics #LiNO #Disability #WelfareReform #EqualityMatters

Thank you for watching it by the way. VicD is fabulous but Streeting makes my stomach heave.

@JugglingWithEggs

The question for me is how any of them who have been justifying the #WelfareReform sleep at night.

#Change ? More like #MoreOfTheSame

Bloody #NeoLiberals

(Hope you guys aren't cooked alive. It's too darn hot up here already.)

But when we look at the current crisis in the UK about #WelfareReform…why is the Disabilities Minister, Stephen Timms completely unrepresentative of the portfolio he leads on?

As an able bodied man, how does he understand or represent the rights of the disabled community?

The Women and Equalities Minister is never, ever a white straight man…just saying.

@Lassielmr @Geri

I'm sitting here, sick with worry. I'm fed up of waking full of anxiety.

I care for a vulnerable person. If I feel like this on their behalf, I can't imagine what they're going through and can't bring myself to start a conversation with them on the topic.

They've received a Universal Credit migration notice, which adds to the fears generated by the situation.

#Disability #Equality #WelfareReform #LiNO

@Lassielmr @peterbrown @TalktoBeverley

24hrs on I still think we may see a handbrake turn on this #WelfareReform bill…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/keir-starmer-dismisses-labour-welfare-cuts-rebellion-as-noises-off

I normally loathe quotes that are unattributed, but there are some fruity ones tonight…

@JugglingWithEggs

Let's see, there's this...

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-are-clueless-on-impact-of-pip-cuts-on-disability-poverty-dwp-admits/

and this...

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-minister-faces-questions-over-sisters-move-to-cut-pip-by-billions-after-ombudsmans-dwp-death-ruling/

or what about this...

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-councillors-silent-over-death-of-disabled-man-whose-pip-was-stopped-as-council-refers-case-for-possible-review/

I know there are many more. But who cares now that we have "change" under #LiNO ?

#Equality #PIP2025 #WelfareReform #DisabilityCuts

Bastards.

Hmmm….I predict a handbrake style u-turn of the kind Johnson used to favour.

#Starmer, who is advising you? Because this is flat footed, nasty politics…the likes of which we’ve not seen since erm…#Sunak.

#WelfareReform
#DisabilityCuts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/keir-starmer-says-government-will-stand-firm-on-disability-welfare-overhaul

At my choir practice last night we were singing "At the end of the day" from Les Miserables.

In case you don't know it, it's about the misery of living in oppressive poverty.

I have no idea why, but I started thinking about Labour's welfare reforms.

#Labour #Starmer #LizKendall #WelfareReform