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Sumi Rabindrakumar

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Policy, research, data & other stuff. @TrussellUK, formerly found over @GingerbreadPA. Views own.

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Trussell (@trusselluk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 Our message to the UK government is clear: cuts to disability support would be catastrophic. Email your MP now ⤵️ bit.ly/3TgDl3L

📣 Our message to the UK government is clear: cuts to disability support would be catastrophic.

Email your MP now ⤵️ 
bit.ly/3TgDl3L
Romilly Weeks (@romillyweeks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I understand a reasoned amendment to the welfare reform bill is being tabled this evening with the backing of 13 labour select Ctte chairs

Pippa Crerar (@pippacrerar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: A reasoned amendment to the welfare bill is being tabled by 13 Labour committee chairs as first reported by Romilly Weeks It creates a big problem for Keir Starmer & Liz Kendall with around 80 Labour MPs already backing the amendment. If selected, it would give them

Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A sign of the significance of the challenge to Keir Starmer on these disability cuts: Labour grandee Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Treasury select committee, is the lead signature on this followed by ten other Labour committee chairs. “Not the usual rebels,” one source tells me

Ayaz Manji (@ayaz_manji) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To put this into context, the Government has a working majority of 165, which means that this motion would pass if 84 Labour MPs and all opposition MPs supported it. Nothing's a foregone conclusion, but with a week left to go until the vote, this is a real sign of hope.

Nikki da Costa (@nmdacosta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve seen some rebellions but that’s quite something. 13 Committee chairs and reported 100 signatories. They’re not messing around with amendments to the Bill, but a reasoned amendment (the reasons for declining to give the Bill a second reading)

Sumi Rabindrakumar (@sumi_rabindrak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is on the money - MPs should not be voting on record cuts to support without knowing the full impact of reforms + without consulting disabled people Cuts would push 440,000 more ppl in disabled households into severe hardship - the govt must think again

Luke Tryl (@luketryl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵I think a key challenge for the Government on disability benefit is they haven’t convinced people that the goal is helping get people into work, rather than just cost savings. The public don’t disagree we should be using welfare reform to make sure people who can work do. But..

🧵I think a key challenge for the Government on disability benefit is they haven’t convinced people that the goal is helping get people into work, rather than just cost savings. The public don’t disagree we should be using welfare reform to make sure people who can work do. But..
Helen Barnard (@helen_barnard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re so grateful to all the MPs bravely taking a stand. Disabled people, carers & food banks are terrified about the potentially devastating consequences if these massive cuts to disability support go ahead. They need as many MPs as possible to stand with them on this.

Baroness J Campbell (@bnsjanecampbell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How many times must I tell parliamentarians PIP is not an out of work benefit. It is to cover the extra costs associated with disability. PIP assists us to navigate our way through life – which includes accessing education, jobs, and day-to-day survival in an ablest world!

Southend Foodbank (@southendfoodban) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Last Wednesday 18th June our Comms & Campaigns Coordinator Cass Francis spoke to Nish Kumar on the Pod Save the UK at the Trussell Lobby Day in Westminster. Nish asked Cass about the changes she has seen after 12 years at Southend Foodbank. #Southend #Foodbanks #LobbyDay

Nikki da Costa (@nmdacosta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The reasoned amendment is reasonable. MPs shouldn't be voting in a vacuum of information. Welfare reform is needed but must rest on strong foundations. The Government didn't do the work, just wielded the red pen, without considering the major challenges in the system.

Carla Denyer (@carla_denyer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The basic rate of Universal Credit should at least cover the cost of basics like food, household bills and travel - but millions are turning to food banks because UC is falling short. I met Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Trussell and people facing food insecurity to call for an #EssentialsGuarantee

The basic rate of Universal Credit should at least cover the cost of basics like food, household bills and travel - but millions are turning to food banks because UC is falling short. I met <a href="/jrf_uk/">Joseph Rowntree Foundation</a>, <a href="/TrussellUK/">Trussell</a> and people facing food insecurity to call for an #EssentialsGuarantee
Sadiq Khan (@sadiqkhan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm calling on the Government to urgently rethink its proposed changes to welfare. Analysis of the proposals shows that the impact will be substantial, destroying the financial safety net for too many disabled Londoners ⬇️

Sumi Rabindrakumar (@sumi_rabindrak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The response on addressing MPs' concerns (“They already have been and they’ve made no difference.”) misses the point: - 'Concessions' were commitments already made in the green paper - It's still record cuts without consulting disabled ppl + without a full understanding of impact

Sumi Rabindrakumar (@sumi_rabindrak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"There's no chance of the govt putting up Universal Credit any time soon" says #Peston Erm...that's exactly what's in the bill?! Emily Thornberry is right that many use disability benefits for essential costs. But UC boost is dwarfed by scale of cuts, driving up severe hardship.