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Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk<br><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-b</span><span class="invisible">illion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/</span></a></p><p>"there are $42.5 billion in broadband <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grants</span></a>... courtesy of the 2021 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> bill. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> voted against the bill, but have repeatedly... taken credit for its looming <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> among our broadly misinformed electorate. And, as we predicted, they’re now redrafting key components of the program to the direct benefit of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1908126/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1908126/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Poorest Brits now worse off than poorest in Slovenia, report finds <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CostOfLivingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CostOfLivingCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FinancialAndDigitalInclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinancialAndDigitalInclusion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LearningAndEmployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningAndEmployment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Novice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Novice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slovenia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Slovenija" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slovenija</span></a></p>
Ollie<p><em>The government spends most of its welfare budget on keeping people trapped in poverty. There is a better way</em></p><p>This chart shows where the government is going wrong on poverty - Big Issue</p><p><a href="https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/poverty-prevention-emergency-coping-cure-pecc/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Fu.k.politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bigissue.com/opinion/poverty-p</span><span class="invisible">revention-emergency-coping-cure-pecc/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Fu.k.politics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DWP</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Starmer denounces benefits system as ‘unsustainable’ in move to slash welfare bill | The Independent<br> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-benefits-pip-welfare-cuts-b2712854.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/keir-starmer-benefits-pip-welfare-cuts-b2712854.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a></p>
penwing (they/them)<p>Starmer rallying the troops for benefits cuts... includes this apparent quote:</p><p>"It runs contrary to those deep British values that if you can work, you should."</p><p>I mean, I've been wondering what British Values are as politicians seem to have a different idea than I do a lot of the time, but this is something new...</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/starmer-decries-worst-of-all-worlds-benefits-systems-ahead-of-deep-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/10/starmer-decries-worst-of-all-worlds-benefits-systems-ahead-of-deep-cuts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BritishValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishValues</span></a></p>
JuneSim63<p>"Labour’s proposed reforms appear to be based not just on budgeting, but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else)"<br>Frances Ryan, excellent as usual.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a><br>Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan | The Guardian<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system</span></a></p>
Pedestriansfirst<p>“Keir Starmer said he would take tough decisions to cut the bill for working age health and disability benefits.” It’s funny how these ‘tough decisions’ never seem to hurt the people making them. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Dudek has repeatedly rebutted that claim. While a database of people who have had <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> numbers is missing dates of death for millions of records, that doesn’t mean those people appear in a separate database of beneficiaries, he said.</p><p>Under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, the agency is already undergoing a *reorganization*, w/snr staffers exiting, &amp; job cuts &amp; office reductions in the works—alarming Dems who see them as a threat to a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> program….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> has sent 3 individuals w/experience in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> Admin, highlighting the focus that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is putting on *rooting out waste &amp; fraud in the nation’s social insurance programs* [dismantling &amp; privatizing the system].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <br><a href="https://archive.is/2025.03.10-183556/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-s-doge-team-sends-private-equity-veterans-to-social-security-agency" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/2025.03.10-183556/h</span><span class="invisible">ttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-s-doge-team-sends-private-equity-veterans-to-social-security-agency</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a>’s proposed reforms appear to be based not just on budgeting, but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else)."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system</span></a></p>
Political Cartoon Gallery<p>Brighty @Brighti on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EdDavey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdDavey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@TheSun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheSun</span></a></span> – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com</p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments | The Independent<br> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-pip-benefit-payments-labour-reeves-b2710913.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/dwp-pip-benefit-payments-labour-reeves-b2710913.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deaths</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/LongTermSick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongTermSick</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a></p>
Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉<p>I find it weird that the UK calls it " <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> " and not " <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> ", especially when even the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> calls it welfare...</p><p>Maybe I'm overthinking it but: I hate the sentiment of "benefits". Its giving: "oh, you're BENEFITING from MY tax money so you can live as a disabled person, YOURE WELCOME", rather than what welfare says: "You need this money for your *welfare*, this is to support you to live a life that caters to your needs"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a></p>
Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉<p>why the fuck does this frame out of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> government's latest disability <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> video look like its filmed at fucking auschwitz?! </p><p>A chilling metaphor tbh. The shit we have to go through as <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabled</span></a> folk in this hellhole <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>An unnamed 'senior' Labour backbencher (quoted in the Guardian) on the prospective cuts to welfare, echos concerns expressed here (and elsewhere):</p><p>'We are a rich country but we have lots of poorer people. Do not target stuff at the poorest and most vulnerable. There are others ways of doing it'!</p><p>Well there may be other ways but Rachel Reeves seems unwilling to countenance them....</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/07/dont-punish-the-vulnerable-labour-mp-uneasy-over-planned-welfare-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/07/dont-punish-the-vulnerable-labour-mp-uneasy-over-planned-welfare-cuts</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>DWP should increase benefits and scrap two-child limit, UN says - Big Issue<br> <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-benefits-two-child-limit-un-uk-poverty/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bigissue.com/news/social-justi</span><span class="invisible">ce/dwp-benefits-two-child-limit-un-uk-poverty/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/BenefitCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenefitCuts</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/2ChildLimit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2ChildLimit</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DWP</span></a></p>
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"Ministers have not said where they will seek cuts, but the largest element of the working-age #welfare bill is incapacity or long-term sickness #benefits - paid via Universal Credit or the legacy system of Employment and Support Allowance."

"The second largest single element of the working-age welfare bill is Personal Independence Payments... this is also somewhere the government might well look to make some savings."

#UKPol #UC #ESA #PIP

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crewng

Chancellor Rachel Reeves gesturing with her right hand while speaking at the National Manufacturing Conference. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top left corner of the image.
BBC NewsWhere can the government cut billions from the welfare budget?The Chancellor has earmarked "several billion pounds" in draft spending cuts to welfare.
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bonitazarrillo_mp

After years of delays, people with disabilities will finally see some relief with the Canada Disability Benefit—but $200 a month is nowhere near enough. The Liberals stalled, and the Conservatives would cut support entirely. New Democrats fought for this benefit, and we’ll keep fighting to end unfair clawbacks and lift people out of poverty. With an NDP government, people with disabilities wouldn’t have to struggle just to get what they deserve. #canada #disability #benefits

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Nonilex

The #SSA has offered buyouts to agency employees, w/a deadline of March 14, before #layoffs begin.

O’Malley predicted a massive political backlash if workers who have paid into the system their entire lives begin to see payments interrupted.

“People are going to start bringing a lot of heat to members of #Congress who have been enabling the destruction of #SocialSecurity & the interruption of earned #benefits,” O’Malley said.

#Trump#TrumpCoup#TrumpPurge
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Nonilex

As part of #Musk’s govt-slashing crusade under #DOGE, last week the #SSA notified workers it would undergo “significant workforce reductions” as part of an “agency-wide organizational restructuring.” While one anonymous source in the agency told the AP that the agency could cut up to 50% of its workforce, SSA has denied this, saying that it had “set a staffing target of 50k, down from the current level of approximately 57k employees.”

#Trump#SocialSecurity#USpol
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