WinVisible / Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign at the protest in Parliament Square, 30 June
Ongoing protests and pressure on MPs has meant the disability movement won big changes to Labour’s vicious Universal Credit and PIP Bill. The PIP cuts will be dropped for now. We need to increase the pressure! Protests continue, as the government is still planning to cut Universal Credit disability payment by half to new sick and disabled claimants (unable to do waged work) from April 2026. This includes, for example, women undergoing chemo after breast cancer surgery.
The Bill is being debated by MPs this Wednesday 9 July (3rd reading).
What you can do:
Lobbying our MPs is working — please write again to your MP. You can use the template letter here.
Protest events this week
- Today Monday 8pm Crips Against Cuts https://www.instagram.com/p/DLw7MBPtfCE/?img_index=1&igsh=OGU0OXZ0cjZuNmN5
- Tuesday 1pm – Crips Against Cuts in person Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, SE1 7PG Waterloo tube station (step-free) https://www.instagram.com/p/DLvNcUBNVvd/?igsh=dHY4ankyY3l3aWEx
- Wednesday 11.30am at Parliament – Lobby your MP. Westminster tube (step-free). Info: https://dpac.uk.net/2025/07/lobby-your-mp-bin-the-universal-credit-bill-binucbill/
- Wednesday 12 noon – Disability Rebellion online protest https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLw24s5tlVH/?igsh=cnV3bWxvbng4cW03
- Wednesday 4pm Old Palace Yard SW1P 3JY. Bin Universal Credit Bill! Westminster tube (step-free)
STEPHEN TIMMS MUST RESIGN!
Many disability organisations have condemned disability benefits minister Stephen Timms for pushing the benefit cuts which are killing us. We have no confidence in the “Timms review” of PIP, and we are calling for his resignation.
How dare he say that needing help to “cut up food, shower and dress the entire lower half of the body, and needing assistance to use the toilet” — mainly the PIP rules which discriminate against women — are “low-level functional needs that can better be solved with aids and adaptations”.
He also dismissed serious problems of people getting cut off in the forced move to Universal Credit from ESA and Child Tax Credits.
We are not “economically inactive”! Coping with disability and ill-health is hard work, we contribute to society and are entitled to help and support! Many of us are disabled mothers and carers. We want a Care Income for all the caring work we do looking after ourselves and others.
See info from John Pring, Disability News Service about the current state of the Bill.
And from the Benefits and Work welfare rights website:
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/what-has-changed-after-last-night-s-uc-and-pip-bill-vote
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