DPAC Northern Ireland

DPAC NI Benefit Cuts Questions

Question 1

How many Deaf and Disabled people will be impacted by the PIP cuts in Northern Ireland?– based on the static cut and not the figure of how many the OBR predicts will actually experience a cut after accounting for assumed “behaviour changes”?- how many households will be pushed into relative poverty and how many into absolute poverty (again according to the static cut nit the OBR’s manipulated figures)?- how many children does this include?

Question 2

How many claimants set to lose PIP are also in either the ESA support group or in receipt of the UC LCWRA component (and therefore set to lose both under the full Green Paper measures)?

How many claimants in NI are currently in receipt of contributory ESA and set to lose this under plans to time limit it?

Question 3

How many claimants in NI are in receipt of the UC LCWRA and set to lose out financially when it is frozen? How many children will be impacted by this?

Question 4

How many Deaf and Disabled people will be impacted when the rate of LCWRA is paid at is halved?

Question 5

How many young people in NI will be impacted when eligibility for UC LCWRA is raised to 22 years old?

Question 6

How many claimants in NI will become subject to the bedroom tax – or incur additional bedroom tax charges as a result of PIP cuts?