In this cold weather, you may be having extra problems paying energy bills. (Also see this page about hardship grants from energy companies, and our Benefits info page). It’s important to know your rights if you are behind with bills and the energy company is threatening to install a prepayment meter by force in your home. Around three years ago, there was a big scandal about British Gas employing a company to break into people’s homes to force-fit prepayment meters (with a court warrant). The people they violently targetted included mums and families with young … Read more
We’re sharing a Camden New Journal report quoting WinVisible, which follows on from a report about the tragic preventable death of Paul Kilminster. Camden New Journal 18 December 2025, News p6 — by Caitlin Maskell ‘Brutal’ system pushing disabled people into crisis “Disability campaigners say the benefits system is still pushing vulnerable people into crisis, as further concerns emerge following the death of a disabled man who had been left fearing eviction after financial support was withdrawn. Paul Kilminster, 66, was found dead at Windsor House on the Regents Park estate in June. A coroner’s … Read more
In July, cuts to the disability payment (“health element”) of Universal Credit (UC) for future claimants were voted through by MPs, despite the massive campaign which got the government to drop the PIP cuts from the same Bill in Parliament. The UC cuts and new rules start from 6 April 2026. We opposed any cuts and are supporting calls to postpone this. People did win another change, that this cut will not affect people already getting UC disability payment (called LCWRA — limited capability for work-related activity). Claimants in this category are called “pre-2026 claimants”. … Read more
We’re taking part in the Unite Community Day of Action against Benefit Cuts and Sanctions with other claimant groups (more details here) Today: Wednesday 26 November TIME: 12 noon onwards WHERE: outside Houses of Parliament. Meet College Green, SW1P 3JX Nearest step-free tube – Westminster * * * Actions in other cities and places include: ** Manchester Wed 26 Nov https://www.instagram.com/p/DQuOP-OjAr4/ · ** Swansea Saturday 29 Nov https://dpac.uk.net/2025/11/protest-the-budget-in-swansea/ We say: · We all have the Right to Live! – disabled & older, immigrants, asylum seekers, people of colour, Palestinians, the natural world… Welfare Not Warfare! NO … Read more
On Mon 3 November, we joined Joy Dove at a protest organised by Dolly Sen, the mental health art activist. Joy is demanding a public inquiry and Justice for Jodey — her daughter Jodey Whiting. This follows an eight-year campaign and legal case to win a second inquest into Jodey’s death. In June, the coroner found that the DWP contributed to Jodey taking her own life, by cutting her off benefit and refusing her appeal. Jodey was in hospital and ill at the time of missing a work capability assessment interview. WinVisible has supported Joy … Read more
Tomorrow Tuesday 22 July is the last stage of the hated Universal Credit Bill. It cuts in half the disability addition to Universal Credit, for 1.6 million newly sick and disabled claimants. You can use this template letter here to send to selected members of the House of Lords. It details some of the changes and impacts of the Bill. The Bill also attacks the importance of the Substantial risk to health protection for claimants. Tanni Grey-Thompson and Jane Campbell both visited the protests at Parliament recently. We’re determined to defend our benefit rights — … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The impact on women of the government’s hated disability benefit cuts is coming out more, including in a new article by Guardian journalist Frances Ryan. Read it here. WinVisible is among organisations calling out sexism in the humiliating PIP test and how women’s needs are downgraded. We comment: “Women are angry that Sir Stephen Timms said needing help to ‘cut up food, shower and dress the entire lower half of the body, and needing assistance to use the toilet’ are ‘low-level functional needs that can better be solved with aids and adaptations’. Disabled women are … Read more
We’re looking forward to taking part this Wednesday 18 June at 7pm, kindly invited by Brent Trades Council to their No to Austerity 2.0 event. The day of the disability benefit cuts Bill. Come along in person to Chalkhill Community Centre (wheelchair accessible), 113 Chalkhill Road, HA9 9FX. Near Wembley Park tube (step free station) on the Jubilee line. OR register for online on Eventbrite page here. Auto captions will be enabled on Zoom. Speakers include: Sarah Kilpatrick (tbc), National Education Union (NEU) President Sarah Woolley, General Sec of the Bakers Union Clive Tickner, Communication … Read more