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Disability benefits are a lifeline. And cutting them won't help disabled people into work, or with the extra costs they face. It's nonsense. This week, our Strategy Director, James, told the government's Work and Pensions Committee just that 💬

I submitted another FOI to try and obtain additional detail regarding the 'behavioural effects' that the gov are using to reduce the numbers affected. I haven't yet analysed the data in any depth, but the response does serve to reinforce just how uncertain these estimates are.

New DWP research gives a clearer picture of why PIP claims have been rising than government & media rhetoric about the need for cuts People with complex poor health, driven in part by financial hardship to seek additional support to meet their basic costs gov.uk/government/pub…

I can understand why so many groups and MPs who have been pushing for a better benefits system will want to do everything they can to influence this review for the better. But also worth paying close attention to the language that Government are using around it. (1/8)

Really interesting from Luke Tryl on whether Govt’s welfare policies are becoming its Achilles heel, because they run counter to voter concern about the cost of living and hardship & their expectations of a Labour government.

“Aiming to support more ill & disabled people into work is a laudable aim, but these cuts are neither necessary to achieve that or justified by it” I spoke to Chris Smyth for this Times piece about disability & health benefit cuts & employment support thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis of disability benefit cuts by Parliamentary constituency and health condition. Select your constituency from drop-down menu on the chart at the following link, to see how many PIP recipients are at risk of losing out: jrf.org.uk/social-securit…

NEW: More than half of disabled people with daily living needs in parts of England and Wales could lose out under planned cuts At least 50% of PIP daily living allowance claimants in ten constituencies could lose this benefit By me, for Big Issue bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Ahead of Liz Kendall’s speech today – a quick thread on why the welfare state isn’t collapsing and why deep cuts to disability benefits aren’t the answer. (1/9)

Today's Trussell stats should be a wake-up call - near record emergency food provision in 2024/25, inflation up again + record cuts to disability benefits to come The UK govt is on course to fail on its manifesto promises + push up hunger and hardship bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3d4…

❗️ Cutting disability support won’t help people back into work. And it won’t help people who are already working. Shockingly, cuts could drive 3.2 MILLION people deeper into hardship.

Cutting disability benefits will increase levels of poverty amongst disabled households. That's a fact. With the Disability Charities Consortium, we’ve written to Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves. We're urging the government to reconsider ⬇️ scope.org.uk/news-and-stori…

A group of MPs call for an urgent pause to #DisabilityBenefits reform and cuts. This is the right thing to do. itv.com/news/2025-05-2…

“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM Gordon Brown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston

The government's proposed cuts to disability benefits will deepen poverty and hardship, and push many further from work 📢 Over 3 million disabled people will see their benefits cut, but the government's plans may help just 45,000-95,000 more disabled people into work. 1/2

🧵Spoke to Ayesha Hazarika earlier about the two child cap & why, leaving aside the moral case, I think the political case for scrapping it is stronger than appreciated. It's a good e.g of where headline polling only tells part of the picture & obscures more than it reveals

Back in 2024, Sir Stephen Timms was Chair of the Work & Pensions Committee. They published a report saying, "For public spending on incapacity, which relates to disability cash benefits, the UK ranked 28th of 38 OECD countries in 2019–2021, spending 1.3% of GDP" vs OECD average of 2.0%.

The majority of Labour seats at risk from Reform at the next general election have the highest rates of people living on disability benefits, according to new Trussell research The analysis comes as the government prepares to tighten PIP rules politicshome.com/news/article/l…

New Money and Mental Health research warns that government’s planned PIP reforms will have a “catastrophic impact” on people’s finances and mental health, and could drive people out of the workplace. It says "A system which was already doing a poor job of understanding how mental health

NEW: Tens of thousands of disabled households could face a “triple hit” of benefit cuts due to the impact on Carer’s Allowance DWP figures show 95,000 unpaid carers stand to lose PIP - and for some the impact could be even worse By me, for the Big Issue bigissue.com/news/social-ju…