We’re quoted in the report below by Disability News Service. Their Freedom of Information requests exposed more about claimants cut off by the DWP. The fate of ESA claimants was raised by Rick Burgess with the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee in June, referring to our campaign, at their hearing, “Safeguarding Vulnerable Claimants inquiry — one year on“. See video or text of the session. Shared from DNS with thanks: DWP stopped claims of more than 1,200 disabled people who ‘failed to engage’ with universal credit migration By Hannah Sharland on 20th August 2026 The Department for Work … Read more
Here is our response sent to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) call for evidence on Carers Allowance. Jointly by the Wages for Housework Campaign/Global Women’s Strike and WinVisible (women with visible & invisible disabilities). The DWP’s call for evidence on CA makes out that all that’s needed is to juggle unpaid care with more flexible paid work. This increases our overwork and exhaustion – how offensive! Mothers and other family carers are insultingly labelled “economically inactive” yet we save the government and councils at least £184 billion a year. This statement recaps our … Read more
Thanks to Disability News Service for highlighting a domestic abuse-related blunder by DWP staff, after the claimant went from a joint claim to a single person claim. This is in a DWP list of serious cases in 2023-4 which they investigated internally because their actions or failings may have affected a claimant who suffered serious harm, died, or attempted suicide. We say in the article: . . . it was “frightening” but unsurprising “that UC staff were so careless as to reveal information to a domestic abuser, and some kind of harm resulted. “We don’t … Read more
This coverage from the Camden New Journal marks a year-long struggle to get Access to Work support from the DWP, along with around 60,000 other disabled people. Our thanks also go to our friends at Touretteshero whose support and advice was invaluable. Our letter, 9 July 2026 “Many thanks to the Camden New Journal for your feature “Disabled people are told AI bots can replace support workers” (4 June) and editor’s Comment. Great news! Shortly after Tom Foot’s enquiries to the DWP, Access to Work confirmed my 32 hours of support worker help at a … Read more
Thanks to everyone who contributed to WinVisible’s response to the PIP Review — call for evidence. ** Please read here and share – feedback is welcome! We focussed on the issues affecting sick and disabled women/of colour, disabled mothers and other family carers, immigrant and UK-born, our experiences, the problems and what we want. We’re continuing last year’s campaign against PIP cuts and government plans in the Review to make PIP the single test including for Universal Credit disability payment, which would deny at least half a million people the UC payment. Some of last … Read more
Thanks to Disability News Service for this update. See also our joint letter and earlier action raising the alarm about people being cut off in the Move to Universal Credit. Fears of another safeguarding catastrophe after DWP stops benefits of nearly 23,000 ESA claimants By John Pring on 14th May 2026 Benefits and Poverty New government figures show nearly 23,000 disabled people have failed to “migrate” from employment and support allowance to universal credit and have had their benefit claims closed, raising concerns over whether many of them have been left destitute. Disabled campaigners warned this week that … Read more
Disability News Service reported: ‘Disabled people’s organisations have branded Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest proposals to slash spending on disabled people’s support as “nonsense”, “harmful”, and a recipe for hardship and poverty. In their latest assault on social security spending, the Conservatives misleadingly claimed the benefit cap allows some households to claim “unlimited benefits” if they include someone who receives certain disability benefits.’ Our group comment: ‘Claire Glasman, from the disabled women’s organisation WinVisible, said the benefit cap already hits women who are unable to escape it through part-time waged work, those fleeing domestic violence, as … Read more
Last year we were part of a big campaign against cuts to disability benefits. The government had to drop cuts to PIP and set up the PIP review instead. But their plan to cut the Universal Credit disability payment/”health element” for new claimants, was passed in the Universal Credit Act 2025 and came into force on 6 April 2026. Here is some info, while we hope that this unjust two-tier system for sick and disabled claimants on UC will be challenged. These rules are new, so please do send us your experiences and tips. For … Read more
Shared from the Camden New Journal with thanks by Tom Foot, 9 April 2026 Disabled people are being robbed of benefits due to overhaul of the system designed to “scrape” some of the most vulnerable people off the welfare budget, campaigners warned this week. WinVisible has written to Sir Stephen Timms, the minister for social security and disability, warning promised safeguards have failed to protect thousands of vulnerable people who have been forced to negotiate a complicated switch over to Universal Credit. The government started the process in 2022 but it has stretched on for … Read more
Last year, we campaigned against cuts to disability benefits across PIP and Universal Credit. The government had to drop the PIP cuts (for now), and set up the Timms PIP review instead. But the Universal Credit Act went through, which cuts disability element of UC by 50% for new claimants from 6 April. There are exceptions for some new claimants, who won’t be cut, and we’ll share info on that very soon. But Sunday 5 April is the deadline to lodge a claim under the old rules, to be in the LCWRA group (formerly Support … Read more