Something positive about this government

Allowing Gay marriage. But that would probably have gone though under any government.

I have just read this bit about the new ISAs and from April 2017

Budget 2016: New Lifetime Isa for homebuyers and retirement

"All savers will be able to put up to £20,000 a year into Isas, up from £15,240 at the moment."

It's probably aimed at younger working people. Come on, hands up then! How many of us, or the younger people today, would have todays eqivalent of 20K to stash away every year. Its' a vast sum for most families.

Last details I heard about zero hours contracts was that most of them were happy with their hours and that a lot were students who didn't want full time work.

It feels like some resent that it is possible for some people under 40 to save, why? Presumably to do so a lot of them forgo things others take for granted. If they are gifted the money, well good for them. I most certainly don't begrudge anyone having more than I have.

There always have and always will be people who cannot afford to buy a house. Sad but true and they should be the people who get social housing instead of rich trade union leaders etc. An ex-colleague of mine who could well afford to keep his working children decided that he would take a percentage of their salary from the day they started work so that when they were earning more they would leave home and get their own place. Maybe if social housing was based on a percentage of earnings some would leave and free up homes for poorer people.

We have the government we voted in.

Nonnie my parents asked for a third of my wages when I started working. I wouldn't have dreamt of living off my parents once I started earning a living.

I've thought of something positive.

Allowing councils to use some of the money from council house sales to build new social housing. The amount is small, but it's better than nothing.

Nonnie, I don't give a jot that others have more than I. I care deeply that those with so little is to have money taken from them to give to those you admire.ni support people saving, I am against them being given money whilst the disabled have it taken from them

Has anyone disabled actually had any money taken off them yet? Can anyone tell me what the guidelines for doing so are?

Annie why did you think I thought you cared a jot?

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www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/507166/government-response-aids-and-appliances-and-the-daily-living-component-of-pip.pdf#page=19

In the meantime here are the new guidelines for you not to read.

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/15/disability-cuts-cutbacks-destroy-independent-living-budget

Real people on here who have had disability benefits cut.
PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF HAVING THEIR BENEFITS CUT.

Your thread appears to have been highjacked, whitewave.
Sorry but I'm angry.

Is it a good thing that the EU has now agreed to governments being able to set their own tampon tax?
Should the government have any brownie points for that?
I could in a convoluted way make a case for it, but I'm still angry that people can try and pretend that benefit cuts are not happening.

It's how it goes dj no problem

I have said it before and will reiterate, I never respond to nasty people who are rude and who don't apologise when they are shown to be wrong. Such childish behaviour beggars belief from someone who claims to have been a head teacher!

Bloody hell!
Cameron is a patron of Motability! Among other disability charities.
Excuse my exclamations, and I never swear in real life.

dpac.uk.net/2016/03/operation-torydump-lobby-disability-charities-to-reject-esacut-mps-nameandshame/

A list of Tory MPs who voted for cuts to ESA and are patrons of disability charities.

Who are you talking about, Nonnie?
If it's me, I have never claimed to have been a head teacher.
Once again you deflect from the fact that you have been given information you asked for but can't be bothered to read, or even say thank you for.

Just what I expect. And I do not expect miracles.

Well a young girl with MS was interviewed on BBC News this week, her transport was taken from her

Something positive?
Only 32,000 people have claimed universal credit last month. It was supposed to have been rolled out everywhere by now.

Well it has taken nearly a whole day and precious little has so far been posted relating to the Tory achievments.

Can't find what isn't there, whitewave.

Can it be whitewave there are sod all achievements to list . To be fare I will list Cameron likes to hug a husky and feed an orphaned lamb

I am going to say my point again. When a country is trying to save money, it is not nice.

I am pretty astounded that anyone would expect or think otherwise.

Nonnie the statistics released yesterday for claimants transferring from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) show 26% of claimants do not get an award of the new PIP. Up to the end of January 2016, 54,200 DLA to PIP claims were processed, so more than 14,000 people have lost their benefit so far. We don't know how many get a reduced award, but the number of claimants losing their Motability cars is running at over 100 per week and this is because their new awards of benefit are at a lower rate (or have been stopped altogether), so they no longer qualify for a Motability car.

This is separate to the changes being discussed in the media at the moment which will start to affect around 640,000 people with disabilities from next January (Government estimates).

Hope this helps.

obieone your comment is not helpful. This is a political decision, otherwise why for example, will the threshold for paying the 40p tax rate rise for the next two years? Nobody expected that to happen and it's the biggest change since Margaret Thatcher's time. Aren't we all supposed to be in this together? We are one of the richest countries in the world and we should not be taking money away from the vulnerable, especially not to give it to the better off.