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Numbers guy. Likes charts. Occasionally spotted on @SkyNews & @TheTimes. Books: http://edmundconway.com/books/  DMs open. Email: ed.conway@sky.uk

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    Ed Conway‏Verified account @EdConwaySky 15 Jan 2019

    This is kind of astonishing. Remember how George Osborne replaced the disability living allowance (DLA) with the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), saying the benefits reform would save the govt 20%? Turns out it has COST the govt an EXTRA 20%. Chart from @OBR_UKpic.twitter.com/t5XMIojzDQ

    5:42 AM - 15 Jan 2019
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      1. Trish‏ @Frusie 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        It was done out of pure spite then.

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      2. Rupert Harrison‏ @rbrharrison 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        Treasury officials were always very sceptical about the cost savings to be fair to them. This does somewhat expose the idea that this was somehow a deliberate agenda of cruel cuts to disability benefits

        4 replies 2 retweets 20 likes
      3. Jonathan Portes‏ @jdportes 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @rbrharrison @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        ?? It was precisely a deliberate agenda of "cruel" cuts to disability benefits. There was never any attempt to make any objective assessment of whether more, less or the same spending was "right" - the 20% was an arbitrary target cut. It just didn't work.

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      2. JPCampbellBiz - Open a window, keep your distance‏ @JP_Biz 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky

        The policy may have caused upset & hardship to many but at least it was more expensive

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      3. Joe Flaherty‏ @joef_3 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @JP_Biz @EdConwaySky

        That’s a feature, not a bug. Modern conservatives are overwhelmingly willing to pay more as long as the right people (read: not them or their family/friends) suffer.

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      1. Alex Staniforth‏ @Alex4Craig_Dudd 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        In one way it's astonishing, in another way it's painfully predictable.

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      1. (((Tim Morton)))‏ @TimMorton2 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        Those endless @DWP appeals to the @UKSupremeCourt don't come cheap do they? @WOWpetition @johnpringdns #PIP

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      2. Hi to Assaf Kaplan!  😷Rab Nesbitt 😷 #Κύριε_ἐλέησον‏ @blepharon 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        How much of that is due to the cost of mandatory reconsiderations and tribunal appeals and defending High Court cases? What is the DWP explanation for the increase?

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      3. Dr_*Rotten Borough* Dump‏ @dump_doctor1 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @blepharon @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        Yeah, such a genius system: the gov pay ATOS/Maximus to lie and then end up paying for the appeals system to rectify those lies. It might even be cheaper (imagine that) to just take GPs and specialists word that someone isn't fit for work in the first place.

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      2. Morette Thompson‏ @MoretteThompson 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EdConwaySky @OBR_UK

        But where did the extra cost go to when the payments to claimants are lower?

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      3. Dr_*Rotten Borough* Dump‏ @dump_doctor1 15 Jan 2019
        Replying to @MoretteThompson

        ATOS don't work for free.

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