women with visible and invisible disabilities
Dear friends, we’re taking part with Disabled People Against Cuts and others: Balls to the Spring Statement#WelfareNotWarfare Wednesday 26 March11am at Downing St, London SW1A 2AAWestminster 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 … Read more
We were glad to work with Channel 4 News for a report on 5 March 2025, where disabled mums Rameeza Mehmud (from WinVisible), Rupy Kaur Roberts, Carly Tait and Marie Tidball MP, spoke out about discrimination in pregnancy and childbirth. Watch the video here (captions). Marie Tidball MP, who describes upsetting treatment before her daughter … Read more
Tomorrow night Wednesday 5 March we’re expecting Channel 4 News to run an important report featuring interviews with disabled mums, that we’ve been working on together. More info to follow — watch this space! #IWD2025
Dear WinVisible, “I’m writing to ask for your help, as a disabled survivor of extreme, life threatening and sadistically violent childhood abuse that lasted from my birth until I ran away at 16. I have not and will never recover from this or the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that is the result, so I’m in receipt … Read more
On Wednesday 12 February, DWP manager* Neil Couling was questioned by MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee, about payments to sick and disabled former ESA claimants who had to claim Universal Credit early because of moving borough, and so lost their severe disability premiums. Watch the session here, this comes up at around 10am. … Read more
We’re glad to attend and share this event highlighting disability — one of a series about Palestine at the P21 art gallery in Somers Town, London NW1. We want to find out more about the situation of disabled people there, especially children and women, and what they want supporters to do. Hope you can come … Read more
Together with Big Brother Watch and a coalition of concerned organisations and human rights groups, we oppose the powers in Labour’s Fraud Bill for computers to monitor the bank accounts of all claimants getting certain benefits, to stop people’s benefits and recover money. Being poor is not a crime! On Monday 3 February, some of … Read more
An open letter from WinVisible, highlighting problems with the forced move to Universal Credit, including risk of destitution for some claimants, was sent in to the Work and Pensions Committee. They are MPs from different parties whose task is to scrutinise the DWP. The Chair of the Committee is Debbie Abrahams MP. Our letter features … Read more
On 16 January, the High Court ruled in favour of Ellen Clifford, that the DWP had acted unlawfully in their 2023 consultation on tightening the Work Capability Assessment, by saying the intention was helping people into waged work, and hiding sweeping benefit cuts. Read the whole judgement here. We supported Ellen’s court case which was … Read more
On Tuesday 10 December, we joined many organisations at the Royal Courts of Justice. Disabled People Against Cuts held a vigil in support of Ellen Clifford’s court case — challenging the DWP and its consultation in 2023 on tightening the Work Capability Assessment and the “Substantial risk to health” regulation. The government put it forward … Read more