UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

Benefits & Work have done some work on this:

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/almost-nine-out-of-ten-standard-rate-pip-awards-fail-new-test

 

It’s the same FOI they’ve quoted

 

The Government is sending out surveys on how you spend your PIP. The Canary is urging people not to fill out any such survey, whether from Government or the There For ME survey

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/04/17/dwp-pip-survey/

 

I have shared this article and these comments with the project group as I helped create the survey

Calling people taking action useful idiots is deeply unsupportive and has probably undermined what we are trying to do to help the community push back against these cuts, as people probably won't fill in our survey now and we are using ita the basis of a briefing to meet with Jo Platt, chair of the ME & LC APPGs and Stephen Timms.

 

Thank you

If you are being forced to spend pip on food then clearly universal credit is insufficient to cover your basic needs?

Agree..I have specific health related dietary additional costs

The output will hopefully provide trends to be able to demonstrate to the minister how utterly and completely unfeasible it is to remove benefits.

 

Yes, I don't know why Steve Topple has lumped your survey in with the DWP one as problematic @JellyBabyKid.

A btl poster on Benefits and Work is a constituent of Jo Platt and had contacted her about the benefits cuts. That poster said J P was very supportive of the cuts and it had been a waste of time contacting her.

 

I don't mean you shouldn't be meeting her and Stephen Timms. It's great that you are. Just a heads up on J P's position. It's another blow that the head of our APPG has this attitude.

Thank you for the work you are doing.

 

Thank you..I appreciate that

This experience is exactly why people do not want to get involved in advocacy though, as there is always somebody waiting to tell you how whatever you are doing is wrong.

It is extremely disheartenening

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