“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”

Re:“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t u... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:31AM (#16273102)

> The government is complicit in far worse breaches of legislation related to the benefits system than fraudulent claimants are.

Good point. The use of retroactive legislation to deny people the money that a court ruled they were entitled to was a stain on the British constitution. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-chan...

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Re:“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t u... by DanBC on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:58AM (#16273190)

Luckily that was challenged, and overturned, and they've said they're not appealing it.

Here's the judgement. It's worth reading, because it seems the lack of consultation for a major change was one of the reasons to overturn it.

http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/...

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Re:“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t u... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:10AM (#16273232)

Ah, you're right but I think that's the wrong reference, it's talking about PIP. I'm thinking of https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2014/07/08/retrospective-legis...

(this of course goes on the list of reasons why the government wants to get out of ECHR at any cost, since it's the only constitutional brake in the system)

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