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The Health and Disability Green paper will deliver tiny income gains at the cost of major losses for those with health problems or a disability.
Restricting PIP qualification to save £5bn would mean between 800,000 & 1.2 million people losing support of between £4,200 & £6,300 per year by 2029-30.
Restricting PIP qualification to save £5bn would mean between 800,000 & 1.2 million people losing support of between £4,200 & £6,300 per year by 2029-30.
March 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Health and Disability Green paper will deliver tiny income gains at the cost of major losses for those with health problems or a disability.
Restricting PIP qualification to save £5bn would mean between 800,000 & 1.2 million people losing support of between £4,200 & £6,300 per year by 2029-30.
Restricting PIP qualification to save £5bn would mean between 800,000 & 1.2 million people losing support of between £4,200 & £6,300 per year by 2029-30.
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Last government cut payments for those looking for work, which created an incentive to get placed in the "no sanctions" group. So then this government cuts funding for that group to try and reduce the incentive.
MP gets in touch and sums up it up pretty succinctly - "Everyone understands PIP needs reform. Everyone understands there are too many signed-off sick who get no help. No one gets why - if true - we seems to be cutting incomes for those too disabled to ever work."
March 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Last government cut payments for those looking for work, which created an incentive to get placed in the "no sanctions" group. So then this government cuts funding for that group to try and reduce the incentive.
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4. Finanzpolitik ist Politik, man kann sie nicht auf Autopilot schalten. Dazu ist die Welt zu kompliziert und zu sehr in Bewegung. Wenn Politiker tricksen wollen, dann werden sie tricksen. Dafür kann man sie abwählen.
March 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
4. Finanzpolitik ist Politik, man kann sie nicht auf Autopilot schalten. Dazu ist die Welt zu kompliziert und zu sehr in Bewegung. Wenn Politiker tricksen wollen, dann werden sie tricksen. Dafür kann man sie abwählen.
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They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing
They're really putting the "if" in tariff
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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One more window into the Trump/Musk recklessness in shuttering USAID: The NYT identified 30 clinical trials that have abruptly been cut off, in some cases with participants with experimental products or medicines in their bodies and no recourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
One more window into the Trump/Musk recklessness in shuttering USAID: The NYT identified 30 clinical trials that have abruptly been cut off, in some cases with participants with experimental products or medicines in their bodies and no recourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Jetzt bräuchte es politische Persönlichkeiten, die über sich hinauswachsen, breite Wählerschichten erreichen, die demokratische Mitte integrieren, Orientierung und Haltung vermitteln und auf die Sache bezogene Politik mit Augenmaß machen können.
February 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Jetzt bräuchte es politische Persönlichkeiten, die über sich hinauswachsen, breite Wählerschichten erreichen, die demokratische Mitte integrieren, Orientierung und Haltung vermitteln und auf die Sache bezogene Politik mit Augenmaß machen können.
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Die Sonderausgabe des Jahrbuchs Steuergerechtigkeit zur Bundestagswahl 2025 ist da und zieht eine Bilanz der letzten vier Jahre. Wer im Wahlkampf echte Entlastungen verspricht und für wen, zeigen wir hier. 👇
netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/sonderausgab...
#Steuergerechtigkeit #BTW2025 (1/5)
netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/sonderausgab...
#Steuergerechtigkeit #BTW2025 (1/5)
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Die Sonderausgabe des Jahrbuchs Steuergerechtigkeit zur Bundestagswahl 2025 ist da und zieht eine Bilanz der letzten vier Jahre. Wer im Wahlkampf echte Entlastungen verspricht und für wen, zeigen wir hier. 👇
netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/sonderausgab...
#Steuergerechtigkeit #BTW2025 (1/5)
netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/sonderausgab...
#Steuergerechtigkeit #BTW2025 (1/5)