Artist, Art Activism, Parent Carer, #UnpaidCarer, PhD Student- Mother Carers @klfox.bsky.social
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kerry fox retweeted
If you are autoenrolled and under state pension age I reckon you can earn £330/week before whole CA vanishes. From £212 to £330 you are working for nothing - except your pension contributions - which is almost 9 hours at national living wage. So for 9 hours a week you are working for nothing.
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It gets more complicated under state pension age. The earnings test is applied to the carer's net weekly wage after tax, NI, and half their pension contributions. Autoenrolment contributions begin at £192 a week and are 5% of wages above £120 a week. Tax/NI=20%+8% of wage above £241.73 a week.
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Full time 24/7 & retired carers the forgotten behind closed doors treating immense familial labour as a given rather than something that requires robust financial and structural backing, CA is punitive 0 health & social care infrastructure squeezing welfare budget via DWP policy
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I now keep visualizing a meeting of the Cabinet to discuss the cost of living crisis &, when asked for suggestions for solving it, somebody came up with the idea of making gherkins cheaper. FFS😂!!!
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Unpaid carers thrilled to hear from the Chancellor of the 2030 start for the end of the cliff edge which means if they earn 1p over £204 a week they lose all their Carers Allowance - until they realise that is the year it begins not the time!
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Petition: Require venues to accept government evidence of disability or caring needs
Require venues and event organisers to accept existing government evidence (PIP, DLA, Carer's Allowance letters) for disability or caring needs,
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
kerry fox retweeted
Liz needs to speak to her constituent #UnpaidCarers. This is not decent enough to be welcomed.
For starters, it won't come in until at least 2030, and as @paullewismoney says, it becomes a 100% tax for #UnpaidCarers.
Carer’s allowance cliff edge rule to be scrapped - this is welcome news and something the @LibDems have been pushing for in Parliament. Unpaid carers should never have been hounded over these overpayments and this scandal should never have been allowed to happen.
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In 2030
Its 2026
Yet another @LibDems policy win. Great to see the lives of a really marginalised and isolated group get a little easier
kerry fox retweeted
This Carer's Allowance story has a huge "but" in it:
Campaigners welcomed the decision - but there was disappointment that the technical demands of building a new digital system to run the taper means it will not be introduced before the end of the decade
theguardian.com/society/2026…
kerry fox retweeted
That was a waste of your time recording that video, Martin . 2031 is disgraceful & taxing a carer on the very little they receive & who are saving the Govt billions is a slap in the face to carers . The piss take outcry of #WeValueOurCarers xitter.cf/MartinSLewis/status/21…
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Disability News Service has investigated animations circulating on social media that portray PIP claimants as fraudsters.
Some have attracted hundreds of thousands of views.
Meanwhile, disabled creators are left challenging the same misinformation again and again.
PIP is not an unemployment benefit. People can work and receive it.
Criticising welfare policy is legitimate. Spreading misleading stereotypes about disabled people is something else entirely.
Social media platforms need to take their responsibilities seriously.
Source: disabilitynewsservice.com/in…
#PIP #DisabilityRights #DisabilityMisinformation #DWP #WelfareReform
kerry fox retweeted
This is why disabled people fear going into hospital
A 37-year-old man with a severe muscle-wasting disease has been trapped in a hospital for more than 13 months because of a dispute over his care.
Ravi Mehta has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and used to receive NHS funding that allowed him to hire his own carers and to live at home.
Now that has been taken away from him, and he is threatened with being put in a care home.
#Duchenne #NHS #Care #Channel4News #C4News
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Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn.
It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you.
With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year.
Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?
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@instagram , @facebook and @TikTokSupport fail to act on animations spreading hate and lies about PIP claimants disabilitynewsservice.com/in… via @johnpringdns
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#Channel4
#TheExperiment
Work shy
Scrounger
Not Productive
Useless Eaters
All language used in the media in Nazi Germany
Language used in the UK by the media since 2010…..
#TheExperiment
The public are being fed in the media for the past 16 years & the same language against disabled people that the Nazis used.
Scrounger
Work - Shy
Useless Eaters
Not Productive
We live in an increased hostile environment because of it
kerry fox retweeted
You know your society is fucked when a parking space can earn more per hour than the minimum wage.
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As they lie and attack disabled people using lies, hate speech, terrifying disabled people and their families
46% families disabled child use foodbanks
78% with families with a disabled member
Meanwhile Amazon has tax credit to remove future payments by £7.6 m
Like oil companies
We pay for every building or oil rig, that's built to make them more profits
They pay Nothing
#r4today #PIP #DisabilityJustice
theguardian.com/technology/2…
metro.co.uk/2026/10/21/half-…
