#LongTermSick hashtag - Bluesky

Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving over 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off

1 year ago

Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled | Disability | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

#Disabled
#LongTermSick
#PIP
#PIPReform
#DisabilityBenefits
#BenefitCuts

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1 year ago

Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled | Disability | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/starme...

#Disabled
#LongTermSick
#PIP
#PIPReform […]

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Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet Expert clinicians are being dispatched to areas with high levels of unemployment

1 year ago

Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

#NHS
#Unemployed
#WaitingLists
#BackToWork
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet Expert clinicians are being dispatched to areas with high levels of unemployment

1 year ago

Putting top doctors in areas with high unemployment sees waiting lists plummet | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-wa...

#NHS
#Unemployed
#WaitingLists
#BackToWork

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Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled benefit claimants die waiting for payments Exclusive: One man has been waiting for almost three years to receive the benefit and finally won a battle to be reassessed – but he’s still waiting

1 year ago

Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

#Benefits
#PIP
#Deaths
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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@probablyedible.bsky.social

1 year ago

Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-pip...

#Benefits
#PIP
#Deaths
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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Cassandra Nilsson

1 year ago

"We are morally obligated to ensure that the disabled people, long term sick people, single patents, children and pensioners are driven to the absolute depths of poverty"

Or something like that

#labour #dwp #disabledrights #disability #chronicillness #longtermsick #childpoverty #winterfuelpayments

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DWP reveals new plans to get disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts The DWP has announced more of its plans to increase employment support for disabled people – but it comes after reports of benefit cuts.

1 year ago

DWP reveals plan to get disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts
www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

#DWP
#BenefitCuts
#Poverty
#Councils
#Services
#ChronicallyIll
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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Roweena

@r2ph.bsky.social

1 year ago

WHAT BENEFITS? I have to wait 6 months for #AccessToWork support. I'm waiting on a reply from #WesStreeting I assume he has a very clear plan to support those of us who are #LongTermSick and trying to work in a broken system. Waiting for the strategy. *taps table*

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1 year ago

Scaring the #LongTermSick & #Disabled, pushing very unwell & vulnerable people closer to breakdown is one sure way of making sure they are further away from work than ever.
Needing to seek support from the Country's 'safety net' is not a crime & people deserve to be treated with respect #Welfare

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DWP stops PIP for 628,000 claimants as major rule changes proposed When claims are checked, PIP payments may stop, reduce, increase or be kept at the same level, even if an individual has reported their health has got worse

1 year ago

DWP stops PIP for 628,000 claimants as major rule changes proposed - Birmingham Live

PIP is not an out of work only benefit & many disabled people rely on it to be able to work

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...

#PIP
#LongTermSick
#Disabled
#Disability

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1 year ago

Another vulnerable group of people about to be targeted & let down by #UKStarmerParty. Liz Kendall pushing through DWP plans to cut support for 450k #LongtermSick & #Disabled ....this is nothing to do with supporting pple into work. Who voted for this?

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People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds Sick workers are four times more likely to leave a job if they have no flexibility at work, new research from the Work Foundation has found.

1 year ago

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds - Big Issue
www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

#LongTermSick
#Work
#GetBritainWorking
#FlexiWorking
#FlexibleWorking
#Accessability
#Disabled

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People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds Sick workers are four times more likely to leave a job if they have no flexibility at work, new research from the Work Foundation has found.

1 year ago

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds - Big Issue
www.bigissue.com/news/employment/work-une...

#LongTermSick
#Work
#GetBritainWorking
#FlexiWorking
#FlexibleWorking
#Accessability
#Disabled

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'Get Britain Working' is empty rhetoric without DWP benefit reforms Anela Anwar, chief executive of anti-poverty charity Z2K, reacts to the government’s ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper.

1 year ago

'Get Britain Working' is empty rhetoric without DWP benefit reforms
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-...

#DWP
#BenefitsReform
#GetBritainWorking
#Poverty
#JobCentres
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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'Get Britain Working' is empty rhetoric without DWP benefit reforms Anela Anwar, chief executive of anti-poverty charity Z2K, reacts to the government’s ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper.

1 year ago

'Get Britain Working' is empty rhetoric without DWP benefit reforms
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-britain-work...

#DWP
#BenefitsReform
#GetBritainWorking
#Poverty
#JobCentres
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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Labour must increase benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again' Poverty harms people's health and pushes people further away from work – so experts are calling for benefits to be increased.

1 year ago

Labour must raise benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again'
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

#Labour
#NHS
#WaitingLists
#DWP
#BenefitRates
#Sanctions
#GetBritainWorking
#FoodBankBritain
#FoodBanks
#BenefitClaimants
#Benefits
#UniversalCredit
#LongTermSick
#Disabled
#Poverty

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PIP fears over bid to swap £737 payments with vouchers that has not been ruled out Several options to replace PIP cash payments have been put forward Get the latest Plymouth Live breaking news on WhatsApp Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts ...

1 year ago

PIP fears over bid to swap £737 payments with vouchers that has not been ruled out
opr.news/24c65ed24112...

#PIP
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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PIP fears over bid to swap £737 payments with vouchers that has not been ruled out Several options to replace PIP cash payments have been put forward Get the latest Plymouth Live breaking news on WhatsApp Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info There are growing concerns that replacing Personal Independence Payments (PIP) with alternatives like a voucher scheme would strip claimants of their independence and dignity.

1 year ago

PIP fears over bid to swap £737 payments with vouchers that has not been ruled out
http://opr.news/24c65ed241129en_gb?link=1&client=opera

#PIP
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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1 year ago

Seems that huge rise in numbers of people 'out of work' since the #Pandemic is nowhere near as high as Government Ministers are currently pushing. Why would that be I wonder? Would that be about pushing unfair policy to remove desperately needed income for those most in need? #LongtermSick #Disabled

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1 year ago

Threads like this one will become more common as the #Homeless crisis will grow ever more out of control especially if #UKLabourParty push ahead with their plans to 'get hundreds & thousands of #LongTermSick & #Disabled 'into work' when there's not enough jobs for everyone.

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1 year ago

For 14yrs The #LongTermSick & #Disabled have been targeted & abused by #ToryWelfareReform. Politicians made the system as bureaucratic as possible to put people off attempting to apply for #WelfareSupport. Humiliating & punitive, Reforms were designed to cause as much anxiety & stress as possible.

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Keir Starmer accused of 'pedalling benefit scrounger myth' after clampdown vow Labour veteran Diane Abbott hit out at Keir Starmer after he pledged to 'get a grip' on the cost of welfare, with sanctions set to be introduced in a tough new clampdown

1 year ago

Keir Starmer accused of 'pedalling benefit scrounger myth' after clampdown vow - Mirror Online
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

#Starmer
#Abbott
#Benefits
#BenefitsClaimants
#ScroungerNarrative
#ScroungerPropoganda
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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1 year ago

Keir Starmer accused of 'pedalling benefit scrounger myth' after clampdown vow - Mirror Online
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starm...

#Starmer
#Abbott
#Benefits
#BenefitsClaimants
#ScroungerNarrative
#ScroungerPropoganda
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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Benefit claimants should have to look for jobs, says Keir Starmer The prime minister has said the public will have to make

1 year ago

Long term sickness Benefit claimants should have to look for jobs, says Keir Starmer - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Starmer
#Benefits
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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1 year ago

Long term sickness Benefit claimants should have to look for jobs, says Keir Starmer - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8g5z67lzo

#Starmer
#Benefits
#LongTermSick
#Disabled

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1 year ago

More frightening times for some of the most Vulnerable people in the UK.
Targeting the #LongTermSick & #Disabled with the threat of getting a job (what jobs!) or starve is probably as low & cruel as it gets. These groups of people need proper support not even more terror & anxiety. #CruelCuts

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