#Thread . My lovely night owls! In light of tweet sent to me by @KizzyDaze I am particularly worried that the government may be planning to expand benefits means testing in order to reduce eligibility. This would hit working disabled people particularly hard. 1
And would also impact those who only receive benefits that are not currently means tested and live with a partner. It means testing is expanded, their partners income will be taken into account, meaning that even more people will be 2
Subject to the issues, raised in may #RightToLove campaign. This would be completely intolerable. I’m not saying that any of this will happen but due to repeated government refusals to rule it out, we can’t say for sure that it won’t. 3
It really is an utterly terrifying prospect and I sincerely hope it doesn’t come to fruition. Although I must point out it was mentioned as a possibility in the 2021 disability benefit reform, green paper. So we will have to see. 4 @sharron_honey #DisabilityRights
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