Tackle Poverty and Inequality Quicks: Difference between revisions

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|ff14=Scrap the bedroom tax
|ff15=Increase the Local Housing Allowance
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|pagename=Disabled People
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Social Security - Disabled People
|1=Disabled People
|ff1=Give effect to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and amend the Equality Act to reflect the social model of disability
|ff2=Stop the dehumanising Work Capability and PIP Assessments, which repeatedly and falsely find ill or disabled people fit to work
|ff3=Make sure all assessments are done in-house
|ff4=Make sure people who are ill and disabled receive the support they need to lead full, independent lives
|ff5=Increase Employment and Support Allowance by £30 per week for those in the work-related activity group
|ff6=Raise the basic rate of support for children with disabilities to the level of Child Tax Credits
|ff7=Ensure that severely disabled people without a formal carer receive extra support to enable them to meet the extra costs they inevitably face
|ff8=Support those who look after others, increasing the Carer’s Allowance to the level of the Jobseeker’s Allowance
|ff9=Help disabled people who want to work by bringing back specialist employment advisors
|ff10=Introduce a government-backed Reasonable Adjustments Passport scheme to help people move between jobs more easily
|ff11=Review support for disabled people at work, including the Access to Work scheme
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|pagename=Pensions
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Social Security - Pensions
|1=Pensions
|ff1=Labour recognises the Waspi injustice, and will work with these women to design a system of recompense for the losses and insecurity they have suffered
|ff2=Ensure that such an injustice can never happen again by legislating to prevent accrued rights to the state pension from being changed
|ff3=Abandon the Tories’ plans to raise the State Pension Age, leaving it at 66
|ff4=Review retirement ages for physically arduous and stressful occupations, including shift workers, in the public and private sectors
|ff5=Maintain the ‘triple lock’
|ff6=Guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment, free TV licences and free bus passes as universal benefits
|ff7=Stop people being auto-enrolled into rip-off pension schemes and seek to widen and expand access for more low-income and self-employed workers
|ff8=Establish an independent Pensions’ Commission, modelled on the Low Pay Commission, to recommend target levels for workplace pensions
|ff9=Create a single, comprehensive and publicly run pensions dashboard that is fully transparent, including information about costs and charges
|ff10=Legislate to allow the CWU- Royal Mail agreement for a collective pension scheme to proceed and allow similar schemes
|ff11=End the injustice of the state taking 50% of the surplus in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and introduce new sharing arrangements so that 10% goes to government and 90% stays with scheme members
|ff12=Ensure that the pensions of UK citizens living overseas rise in line with pensions in Britain
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