We refuse to be divided by the government into current claimants who will be OK and future claimants who will lose. The Universal Credit and PIP Bill cuts disability benefits massively — as well as connected carers’ benefits, Council Tax Support, rent allowance for wheelchair users, and protection from the total benefit cap, which particularly hits disabled mothers and children.
For current claimants, the benefits system reviews our PIP and Universal Credit entitlement, some people are cut off and have to apply again under the new rules.
We’re quoted in the Guardian today: ‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners
Join the protests in person and online:
Mon 30 June 4.30pm — Stop Disability Benefit Cuts
Rally in Parliament Square SW1P 3JX
Station: Westminster tube (step-free) Organised by a coalition.
Tues 1 July — 1pm onwards
Vigil & rally Old Palace Yard, Parliament SW1P 3JY (opposite the House of Lords)
Station: Westminster tube (step-free)
Organised by DPAC and Crips Against Cuts
Online from home:
Protest on social media #StopDisabilityBenefitCuts #WelfareNotWarfare
Disability organisations’ statements
- Disability Rights UK and others: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/unacceptable-concessions-disability-cuts-will-permanently-divide-disabled-community
- Inclusion London urges MPs to stand their ground on benefit proposals
- Camden Disability Action https://camdendisabilityaction.org.uk/cda-comment-on-welfare-reform-adjustments/
“Proposed cuts will have a ‘devastating’ impact on women” — Frances Ryan, Guardian
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