| Dear friends, we’re taking part with Disabled People Against Cuts and others: Balls to the Spring Statement #WelfareNotWarfare Wednesday 26 March 11am at Downing St, London SW1A 2AA Westminster tube (step-free) Against the cuts to disability benefits announced last week, and cuts to public services expected in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement. Speakers, including WinVisible March to Parliament Square where Homes For All and Stop the War are holding protests. Livestreaming from @thecanaryuk on TikTok . Videos and comments on Instagram and Twitter/X. Protests around England, Scotland, Wales and the North of Ireland – info here · NO to cuts to disability benefits – under the government’s proposals in the Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, up to 1.2 million disabled people would be forced into deeper poverty and destitution, more at risk of abuse, and women/mothers and children more affected. We struggle to heat our homes, and use foodbanks. Young people under 22 would be denied the disability addition to Universal Credit. · Welfare Not Warfare: £5bn cuts to #DisabilityBenefits, deep poverty on Universal Credit, but Rachel Reeves will increase military spending, which already includes Trident nuclear weapons/submarines costing £59bn. The RAF flies from Cyprus over Gaza, complicit in bombing children, women and even hospitals. Money for benefits and services, not bombing people! · NO to the abolition of “Substantial risk to health” protection for claimants: women survivors, people with mental distress or stroke, etc. · Carers’ benefits are tied to their disabled relative/teenagers getting PIP. Making PIP harder to get, threatens the whole household income and increases carers’ exhaustion, who save the government £162 billion a year. Most carers are women, including disabled women carers. · Labour’s insulting attack on sick and disabled people, mothers and family carers and young people — calling us “economically inactive” and cutting our money, threatens our survival. We defend everyone’s right to benefits and to healthcare, to financial recognition of our caring work and other contributions, and we demand abolition of “No Recourse to Public Funds”. · No more deaths from benefit cuts or destitution: from mum Lilian Oluk (aged 36) and her baby Lynne Mutumba (2) to mum Philippa Day (aged 27). · Already, 160,000 children are poorer after their parents, mainly mothers in low-waged work, got cut off Child Tax Credits in the forced move to Universal Credit. · Abolish the two-child limit which impoverishes children in larger families. · Social care: impoverishing mothers means more children in “care”. Yet councils spend millions on privatised children’s home placements where children are separated from their families and suffer abuse, instead of councils supporting mothers and keeping families together. “Child protection” spending is bankrupting councils and brings cuts to adult social care. We’re part of the ongoing campaigns against these vicious proposals and put forward our different situations and all the ways we’ll be affected if these changes are not dropped. Contact us: @WinVisibleWomen Twitter Email win@winvisible.org Tel: 020 7482 2496 |
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