Seen on reddit. Someone asked: "What happens after the welfare cuts? I feel this has not been thought through properly. There are currently over 1.6 million people actively looking for work, and around 736,000 jobs available."
Another redditor responded: "*I work in a job centre.
We are openly told by line managers there is no plan. The reforms will mean many people lose out directly (their PIP is cut), but also indirectly (carers of people with PIP are entitled to an additional rate on UC).
The main things we are being trained for is an increase in 6PP situations (suicidal claimants) and additional training on managing those with severe health conditions whilst on UC.
The Work Capability Assessment system is expected to totally collapse immediately after the reforms are implemented due to demand as people denied PIP scramble to get LCWRA classification.
Even the harshest people on my team see it as a disasterous act of cruelty, as someone put it "saying the quiet part out loud."*
What is the government hoping will happen? There aren't enough jobs already. Do they hope everyone just kills themselves? Or turns to crime like mugging and shoplifting?
No wonder the UK is the second most miserable country on earth: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-is-officially-the-worlds-second-most-miserable-country-these-were-the-happiest-and-unhappiest-countries-of-2023/articleshow/108361220.cms?from=mdr
They're training them to deal with people who phone the benefits people saying they're suicidal and desperate because their benefits have been cut. In the UK assisted suicide isn't even legal, so when they cut people's benefits the only ways out are starve to death (which has happened to many people already after their benefits were stopped, like Errol Graham and Mark Wood) or DIY suicide (like Jodey Whiting and many others). I'd prefer euthanasia for a peaceful exit, but we can't even be allowed that. We have to do it ourselves, painfully and risk botching the job. The system is designed to be as cruel and painful as possible in every way. They're just training their staff how to take phone calls from suicidal people basically. They aren't even offering them an easy way out.