What this indicates is that, despite the Green Paper talking a lot about rises in claims amongst young people and claimants on grounds of mental health and of autism and ADHD, the incidence of people at risk of losing benefit is rather different - people aged 50+ and those with musculoskeletal conditions, with a higher proportion of women affected than men.
Notably, despite the last WASPI women (accepted as such by the campaign) ageing out of the workforce later this year, it's women who would, under the prior age 60 pension have a state pension, but have significant health issues and are now within the working age group, who seem worst affected.
The OBR thinks that welfare advisers and successful appeals will succeed in getting a lot of those affected through the new version of the test, as has previously been the case with successive attempts to tighten eligibility - the moves from Invalidity Benefit to Incapacity Benefit (the All Work Test) and from Incapacity Benefit to Employment & Support Allowance (Work Capability Assessment) both had this effect.
The idea, much touted by govt, is that those who've had their benefits removed can make up the loss by getting, to quote the imbecilic Ellie Reeves, good jobs. When my PIP reviews (enhanced both cats) come up (I'm on a ten year review) I'll be in my middle to late 70s. What work does anyone really think I'm likely to be getting?
"only 70% of autistic people are in employment, because job application processes are hard for many autistic people to navigate and autistic people often struggle to fit in to corporate cultures."
One of my friends, deeply Aspie, top 1% IQ, recounted to me how she could only find bottom of the barrel work in the UK as she simply couldn't get through the job interviews for anything more suitable to her undoubted abilities. Finding herself abroad (long story) she applied for quality work and breezed into it as well, doing it well enough to be able buy her own house after a time. This rather suggests to me that, as per bleedin' usual, it's British attitudes which are the problem, not any lack of ability on behalf of the people.
I am autistic. I don't last long in employment as I don't fit into corporate cultures. So I have been self-employed (apart from a few very part time zero-hours contracts) for thirty years. This is the experience of many, many older autistic people like me. We have never had access to support or "reasonable accommodations" for our disability. We have simply had to find ways of surviving.
"There seems no doubt that this decision stems from the government’s fiscal constraints."
I doubt it, lots. Removing state provision of health insurance opens up a multi-£Bn private market, plenty of gravy for everyone involved, politicians, the media, everyone. That's all this is about. Greed.
To add a little - since the Government's announcement, a range of informative information has been extracted by FoI as well as being included in successive 'evidence packs' from DWP. One of the most useful FoIs is https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/numbers_of_claimants_of_pip_who#incoming-2991716.
What this indicates is that, despite the Green Paper talking a lot about rises in claims amongst young people and claimants on grounds of mental health and of autism and ADHD, the incidence of people at risk of losing benefit is rather different - people aged 50+ and those with musculoskeletal conditions, with a higher proportion of women affected than men.
Notably, despite the last WASPI women (accepted as such by the campaign) ageing out of the workforce later this year, it's women who would, under the prior age 60 pension have a state pension, but have significant health issues and are now within the working age group, who seem worst affected.
The OBR thinks that welfare advisers and successful appeals will succeed in getting a lot of those affected through the new version of the test, as has previously been the case with successive attempts to tighten eligibility - the moves from Invalidity Benefit to Incapacity Benefit (the All Work Test) and from Incapacity Benefit to Employment & Support Allowance (Work Capability Assessment) both had this effect.
Also, Ben Baumberg Geiger (https://inequalities.substack.com/) has a lot of useful context.
The idea, much touted by govt, is that those who've had their benefits removed can make up the loss by getting, to quote the imbecilic Ellie Reeves, good jobs. When my PIP reviews (enhanced both cats) come up (I'm on a ten year review) I'll be in my middle to late 70s. What work does anyone really think I'm likely to be getting?
"only 70% of autistic people are in employment, because job application processes are hard for many autistic people to navigate and autistic people often struggle to fit in to corporate cultures."
One of my friends, deeply Aspie, top 1% IQ, recounted to me how she could only find bottom of the barrel work in the UK as she simply couldn't get through the job interviews for anything more suitable to her undoubted abilities. Finding herself abroad (long story) she applied for quality work and breezed into it as well, doing it well enough to be able buy her own house after a time. This rather suggests to me that, as per bleedin' usual, it's British attitudes which are the problem, not any lack of ability on behalf of the people.
it's actually 30% - I have corrected the figure.
I am autistic. I don't last long in employment as I don't fit into corporate cultures. So I have been self-employed (apart from a few very part time zero-hours contracts) for thirty years. This is the experience of many, many older autistic people like me. We have never had access to support or "reasonable accommodations" for our disability. We have simply had to find ways of surviving.
"There seems no doubt that this decision stems from the government’s fiscal constraints."
I doubt it, lots. Removing state provision of health insurance opens up a multi-£Bn private market, plenty of gravy for everyone involved, politicians, the media, everyone. That's all this is about. Greed.