MSE News: Disability and carer's allowance claimaints to suffer as inflation falls

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Disability and carers benefits are likely to rise by just 1.2% next April after inflation figures fell to a five-year low

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'Disability and carer's allowance claimaints to suffer as inflation falls'

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• Does that not mean that the cost of living falls by 1.2% therefore resulting in equilibrium.
  I have not had a pay rise in 4 years, so I would be happy with a 1.2% rise in my income!
• The employed who are stumping up their cash week in week out to pay for the benefits aren't getting rises so why should everyone else?
• So if inflation had been 10% and the increase in benefits 10% would they have had a bonanza rather than suffering?!
• What a ridiculous headline. Inflation falls so people "suffer" because they're only getting inflation increases? Would they all be better off with inflation at 5% and benefits rising at 5%?
• its a possibility that by next april inflation could be as low as 0.8% making a 1.2% inc seem adequate but not generous
• Benefits are there to help people not starve, they aren't really there to enable them to live in a manner better than the poor bloke down the road who goes out to work every day to pay for them.
  I note from #13 the comment about motability - I'd love to have a shiny new car every three years (all expenses except fuel paid for) and I know a few who both get a nice new up-market motor on the scheme. In my view the motability scheme should be for a basic car without all the lights bells and whistles.
  It's not up to the rest of us to fund a BMW or ginormous 4x4 when we have to go to work in a 10 year old Fiesta to pay for it.
  Likewise short holidays - why should we fund someone to go on holiday when we can't afford it ourselves even though we are working.
  The whole idea is to live within your means, not someone else's means. Benefits should be at or preferably below the level of the minimum wage however many kids you had or wherever you lived or whatever you think you need so there's an incentive to go out an earn.
  You wouldn't be any worse off than the bloke who earned it for you but you wouldn't or shouldn't be better off either.