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
Wed 4 December 7pm — free Zoom event organised by our friends at the Bhopal Medical Appeal (Brighton) We’re glad to share this event — a chance to find out more about what happened, and get the latest news on the demands of the survivors. 7pm to 8.30pm UK time auto-captions available. Register here They say: Join the Bhopal … Read more
3 December 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy in India, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, when a pesticide factory owned by Union Carbide exploded next to the community. It marks 40 years of women gas survivors confronting corporate crime and Dow Chemical — who took over the site but refuse to … Read more
Women in our group and the community have been contacting us about the move from ESA to Universal Credit (UC). We want to share what we found out — what you can do to keep your benefits, what rights you have, and some helpful tips. Get in touch to add useful info from your own … Read more