PrairieLights
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UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025
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Kitty
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Benefits & Work have recently posted this:
I think the reviews are supposed to be the 10-year 'light touch' ones. My last review came up a few months before I reached pension age, and that said the next review would be 10 years unless my circumstances changed.
I'd be surprised if they made major changes to that because it makes economic sense. There's little point in doing frequent reviews for people who already have substantial impairments by their late 60s, as most will tend to become more impaired over time by natural ageing and some will collect additional diagnoses.
Lou B Lou
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
The Times 20/6/2025 at 9.10pm
'A dozen ministers could quit over Starmer’s disability welfare cuts'
'Government figures say they will oppose reforms to personal independence payments and universal credit, while some believe the vote will have to be pulled'
'As many as a dozen members of government are prepared to resign rather than support Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial welfare reforms, it has been claimed, as backbench critics accused ministers of betraying Labour values.
A senior government figure told The Times that about 12 of their colleagues had privately indicated they would find it impossible to support the measures that are due to be voted on a week on Wednesday.
Another leading opponent said that as many as 80 Labour MPs were “holding firm” in opposition to the plans and believed the government would ultimately have to pull the vote.
“If this goes through this will be our version of tuition fees,” they said. “The optics of taking away money from people who find it difficult to go to the toilet are terrible.”
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The government has a working majority of 165, meaning that 83 Labour MPs would have to rebel for Starmer to lose a vote.'
Archive Version of the Times Article. Accessible to Everyone.
https://archive.ph/T7cgR
www.thetimes.com
'A dozen ministers could quit over Starmer’s disability welfare cuts'
'Government figures say they will oppose reforms to personal independence payments and universal credit, while some believe the vote will have to be pulled'
'As many as a dozen members of government are prepared to resign rather than support Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial welfare reforms, it has been claimed, as backbench critics accused ministers of betraying Labour values.
A senior government figure told The Times that about 12 of their colleagues had privately indicated they would find it impossible to support the measures that are due to be voted on a week on Wednesday.
Another leading opponent said that as many as 80 Labour MPs were “holding firm” in opposition to the plans and believed the government would ultimately have to pull the vote.
“If this goes through this will be our version of tuition fees,” they said. “The optics of taking away money from people who find it difficult to go to the toilet are terrible.”
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The government has a working majority of 165, meaning that 83 Labour MPs would have to rebel for Starmer to lose a vote.'
Archive Version of the Times Article. Accessible to Everyone.
https://archive.ph/T7cgR
A dozen ministers could quit over Starmer’s disability welfare cuts
Government figures say they will oppose reforms to personal independence payments and universal credit, while some believe the vote will have to be pulled
www.thetimes.com
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MrMagoo
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Nonnpaywall
Lou B Lou
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
How do you do that? Find the archived version?
MrMagoo
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
I created it -by pasting the link to the paywalled version in the box on the archive.ph homepage
MrMagoo
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
My local MP sent this reply.
As I’m in Liverpool, it’s reassuring (but not surprising) to hear that there are MPs standing firm against the proposed cuts.
Thank you for contacting me regarding cuts to welfare benefits.
I appreciate you getting in touch with me regarding this issue. I have received hundreds of emails from constituents like you who have major concerns regarding the impact reforms to welfare benefits will have.
Many have shared stories and experiences with me highlighting the personal impact these cuts will have on them. I know this announcement will have created so much fear and anxiety for disabled people, their loved ones and those who are caring for them.
At the Spring Statement the Chancellor announced that the Government are to go ahead with reforms to the welfare system- cutting £6.4 billion from the budget by 2029/30.
Disability benefits are a vital lifeline for many people, helping them manage the additional costs they face daily. Cuts to Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit will have a detrimental impact across the country.
Cutting support or reducing eligibility won’t push more people into work - it will only push more people into poverty. The reality is stark: 77% of people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months.
The independent impact assessment has shown that because of these cuts 250,000 more people will be pushed into poverty- including 50,000 children. These cuts won't just cause hardship, they will cost lives. I will not support any policy that will result in my constituents being left poorer and which will widen inequality.
For 14 years the Tory Government pursued austerity, attacking welfare benefits taking a sledgehammer to the safety net that provided much needed support for those most vulnerable. Now for the Labour Government to pursue policies indistinguishable from the cruelty of Tory austerity goes against the principles and values of our party.
Last year the country voted overwhelmingly for a Labour Government for the first time in 14 years because they wanted our Government to deliver change. Stripping pensioners of their winter fuel allowance, abandoning the WASPI women owed compensation and cutting benefits payments which will plunge those already struggling into absolute poverty is not the change the Government promised.
Now is the time for the Government to opt for a wealth tax, as I and many of my colleagues have been calling for. A 2% tax on assets worth over £10 million would raise £24billion a year. This would impact only the very wealthiest people in the country- those who have either inherited their wealth or have benefitted most from the structure of our economy.
There are ways in which revenues can be raised fairly, rebalancing the scales of power and making those with the broadest shoulders pay their fair share. The alternative is to penalise those with the least, continuing the broken system of taxing workers instead of wealth.
Politics is about choices and to pursue policies which will make life harder for the poorest people whilst leaving the profits of millionaires and billionaires untouched is inexcusable.
I urge my colleagues to take a different course of action, I have written to the Chancellor urging her to rethink these cuts. I joined the Labour Party to fight for social and economic justice for our class, to bring fairness and equality to our society. In this regard, I am simply unable to support cuts to welfare benefits and will vote against any legislation to enact these changes.
I am committed to fighting for a society that prioritises welfare not warfare, and where no one is left behind.
Thank you once again for taking the time to write to me. I hope this response has made my position clear.
Yours sincerely,
As I’m in Liverpool, it’s reassuring (but not surprising) to hear that there are MPs standing firm against the proposed cuts.
Thank you for contacting me regarding cuts to welfare benefits.
I appreciate you getting in touch with me regarding this issue. I have received hundreds of emails from constituents like you who have major concerns regarding the impact reforms to welfare benefits will have.
Many have shared stories and experiences with me highlighting the personal impact these cuts will have on them. I know this announcement will have created so much fear and anxiety for disabled people, their loved ones and those who are caring for them.
At the Spring Statement the Chancellor announced that the Government are to go ahead with reforms to the welfare system- cutting £6.4 billion from the budget by 2029/30.
Disability benefits are a vital lifeline for many people, helping them manage the additional costs they face daily. Cuts to Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit will have a detrimental impact across the country.
Cutting support or reducing eligibility won’t push more people into work - it will only push more people into poverty. The reality is stark: 77% of people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months.
The independent impact assessment has shown that because of these cuts 250,000 more people will be pushed into poverty- including 50,000 children. These cuts won't just cause hardship, they will cost lives. I will not support any policy that will result in my constituents being left poorer and which will widen inequality.
For 14 years the Tory Government pursued austerity, attacking welfare benefits taking a sledgehammer to the safety net that provided much needed support for those most vulnerable. Now for the Labour Government to pursue policies indistinguishable from the cruelty of Tory austerity goes against the principles and values of our party.
Last year the country voted overwhelmingly for a Labour Government for the first time in 14 years because they wanted our Government to deliver change. Stripping pensioners of their winter fuel allowance, abandoning the WASPI women owed compensation and cutting benefits payments which will plunge those already struggling into absolute poverty is not the change the Government promised.
Now is the time for the Government to opt for a wealth tax, as I and many of my colleagues have been calling for. A 2% tax on assets worth over £10 million would raise £24billion a year. This would impact only the very wealthiest people in the country- those who have either inherited their wealth or have benefitted most from the structure of our economy.
There are ways in which revenues can be raised fairly, rebalancing the scales of power and making those with the broadest shoulders pay their fair share. The alternative is to penalise those with the least, continuing the broken system of taxing workers instead of wealth.
Politics is about choices and to pursue policies which will make life harder for the poorest people whilst leaving the profits of millionaires and billionaires untouched is inexcusable.
I urge my colleagues to take a different course of action, I have written to the Chancellor urging her to rethink these cuts. I joined the Labour Party to fight for social and economic justice for our class, to bring fairness and equality to our society. In this regard, I am simply unable to support cuts to welfare benefits and will vote against any legislation to enact these changes.
I am committed to fighting for a society that prioritises welfare not warfare, and where no one is left behind.
Thank you once again for taking the time to write to me. I hope this response has made my position clear.
Yours sincerely,