The attack on people with debilitating ill-health begins within days Remember when I wrote this, on the late, lamented Vox Political?

It starts in April. Disabled people will lose Universal Credit support if their condition MIGHT improve. It was always the plan — I told you about it last year - now it’s happening.
#UniversalCredit #DisabilityRights #WelfareCuts #DWP #UKPolitics #TheWhipLine
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𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, the health element of #UniversalCredit - will be halved to £𝟱𝟬 a week and frozen for new claimants, 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 their condition is found to be terminal or severe and lifelong with no prospect of improvement.

The Guardian: Welfare benefit reforms - changes to the health element of Universal Credit - The ME Association Frances Ryan, a journalist at The Guardian, published a new […]

1/2: The Guardian: Welfare benefit reforms – changes to the health element of Universal Credit

Read more on the blog: https://meassociation.org.uk/wbta

#MECFS #LongCovid #UniversalCredit #pwME

Disabled benefit claimants face lower payments if conditions not deemed lifelong, charities say Forthcoming rules mean debilitating conditions may not meet strict ‘severe and lifelong’ eligibility criteria, say disabled people’s organisations

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Good quotes from my 'soft spot' charity here (I worked for them for 24 years!) | The Guardian | 29 March 2026:
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#mecfs #MyalgicEncephlomyelitis #Benefit #wefarerights #universalcredit #TimmsReview

#TheNarrowPath

All the money I have to my name.

I have groceries enough for one small meal a day, a snack and a couple of chocolate biscuits of an evening between now and the 5th of April.

#VirginMoney
#UniversalCredit
#TheFineTunedUniverse

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Research highlights small jobs impact of extra DWP support, just as ministers use it to justify cuts New government research has highlighted the small impact on their job chances of voluntary support provided to disabled people assessed as not fit for work, days before ministers prepare to use it …

Research highlights small jobs impact of extra DWP support, just as ministers use it to justify cuts
#DWP #UniversalCredit
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Claimants face ‘destitution’ over failure of universal credit migration safeguards, letter warns minister Many disabled people are “suffering intensely” and face the threat of destitution because they cannot meet the government’s deadline for moving onto universal credit from their existing “legacy” be…

Claimants face ‘destitution’ over failure of universal credit migration safeguards, letter warns minister
#ESA #UniversalCredit
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Two-child benefit cap scrapped End to the limit becomes law.

Two-child benefit cap scrapped. 🧡

Since April 2017, parents have only been able to claim child tax credit or universal credit for a maximum of two children per household.

https://bit.ly/41eyrbd

#UniversalCredit #TwoChildCap #RachelReeves

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In our new ‘Public Health Research and Me’ Fuse podcast 🎙️ Mel and PJ speak to @cherylblake-ebe.bsky.social about how UC Creatives uses art and lived experience to empower voices and highlight the impact of #UniversalCredit on #MentalHealth and wellbeing.

Listen now 🎧

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Easter bank holidays may affect your benefit payments When your DWP payments will arrive over the easter weekend.

Easter bank holidays may affect your benefit payments. 💰

The easter weekend is just around the corner - and that could affect when your benefit payments will arrive.

https://bit.ly/4beBsyb

#Benefits #UniversalCredit #BankHoliday

Hardship fund and faith school bus fees considered in school transport review A review of Flintshire school transport policy has suggested a hardship fund to help pupils get to school if their family is given benefits…

Emergency free school transport could help Flintshire families under benefits sanctions according to service review.

www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2593474...

#Flintshire #schooltransport #Universalcredit #benefitssanctions #LDReporter

Hardship fund and faith school bus fees considered in school transport review A review of Flintshire school transport policy has suggested a hardship fund to help pupils get to school if their family is given benefits…

Emergency free school transport proposal could help Flintshire families under benefits sanctions.

www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2593474...

#Flintshire #schooltransport #Universalcredit #benefitssanctions

Could digital ID make claiming benefits easier? Government wants to streamline the system.

Could digital ID make claiming benefits easier? 🔍

The government wants to introduce a new digital ID, so people can log on to just one app to prove who they are.

https://bit.ly/4s9Ksuy

#Benefits #DigitalId #UniversalCredit

I am v #sorry to #universalcredit if I rushed into accusing them of making me submit 4months expenses, if they originally had the requirement to submit 4expenses only, as well as the 4months, on my account. I am not sure if it was changed or not. #Julia #juliawilkinson

In fact I now c its unclear what #universalcredit r asking me for. In one place it appears 2suggest,as i wrote b4, that i need to submit all my expenses for 4months; in another place its just asking for 4specific expenses I was originally asked for. Its probably the latter, I see. Im asking. #Julia

I told #Universalcredit about last yr or yr be4, long message that I don't have any carers,I've never properly had carers (except lady who broughtmeup kept visiting me 4few yrs&helped in e20s when I had badback). They wrote they didn't have2respond. I bet loads pple get fraudulent dosh4this. #julia

Very much on topic. Fascism is colonialism come home. This is the imperial boomerang.

#UC #UniversalCredit

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Pending cuts to #UniversalCredit for disabled people are terrifying. Already advising families who will see much bigger drops in income when young adults they care for claim UC for first time from April. 'Severe conditions criteria' may not apply to many. It's a scary time.

𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦: ILR holders make up only about 𝟮.𝟳% of all #UniversalCredit claimants, with just around a third of those in employment!

1/ The UK's benefit sanctions regime is causing harm to those most vulnerable.

In a report published by PLP at the end of last year, drawing on casework from 100+ sanctioned people and analysis of DWP data, we found the #UniversalCredit sanctions system is failing on its own terms.

#DWP #UniversalCredit #BenefitsSystem #DisabilityRights #MentalHealth

Why you shouldn’t ignore your universal credit ‘migration’ letter People on ‘legacy’ benefits are being moved on to universal credit.

Why you shouldn’t ignore your universal credit ‘migration’ letter. 📝

The government is moving everyone on older ‘legacy’ benefits on to universal credit - a single payment that combines several types of financial support.

https://bit.ly/4avON4P

#Benefits #UniversalCredit #DWP

I've just told #UniversalCredit that I applied for a job on February 22nd 1066.

Welfare | People Power We want to restore the welfare state to its former glory. Too many of our so-called leaders have been convinced it is an unaffordable burden. It was affordable in the aftermath of World War 2 and it…

How To Improve The UK: Welfare

7. Repeal the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payment Act in its entirety. People seeking employment would be given a job under our new Job Guarantee programme, and the disabled will be supported with...

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#universalcredit #jobguarantee #uk

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦:
* There is no limit to the number of terms an individual can run as London mayor.
* The London mayor gets paid £𝟭𝟳𝟬,𝟮𝟴𝟮 pa, around £3,275 a week - 𝟪 𝘹 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 the monthly #UniversalCredit amount!

Approximately 𝟱𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 Ukrainian refugees in the UK are receiving state benefits (primarily #UniversalCredit) .... that's a monthly cost of at least £𝟮𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬!

Council admits discrimination after DWP ‘migration’ left disabled couple with £1,500 tax bill A local authority has admitted discriminating against a disabled couple who were left with a significant new council tax bill after they were forced to move onto universal credit. The legal victory…

A local authority has admitted discriminating against a disabled couple who were left with a significant new council tax bill after they were forced to move onto universal credit.
#UniversalCredit #CouncilTax #DWP
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Colonised, Apparently: How Britain’s Loudest Wallets Keep Blaming Everyone Else Ratcliffe waves “nine million on benefits” like a pitchfork, Farage brings a dictionary as backup, and the real extraction carries on upstairs, unbothered.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe says Britain is being “colonised”
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#UKPolitics #Immigration #UniversalCredit #CostOfLiving #NHSUK #TaxJustice #FactCheck #SatireUK #ReformUK #Farage #Ratcliffe #ManchesterUnited #HousingCrisis #Austerity #MigrantWorkers #BenefitMyths

No changes to Somerset council tax support until April 2027 Somerset Council is being taken to the High Court for a judicial review into its council tax support scheme by disabled Taunton resident Andy…

#Somerset Council won't make any changes to its #counciltax support scheme until April 2027, despite the threat of an upcoming #judicialreview by disabled #Taunton resident Andy Mitchell: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2585252... #LDReporter #Budget2026 #universalcredit

Cuts to disability benefits for those who cannot work ‘is recipe for greater hardship’ and ‘will put lives at risk’ Activists say the government’s decision to slash disabled people’s out-of-work benefits is a “recipe for greater hardship” and will risk claimants’ lives, as ministers this week pushed through cuts…

Activists say the government’s decision to slash disabled people’s out-of-work benefits is a “recipe for greater hardship” and will risk claimants’ lives, as ministers this week pushed through cuts agreed last summer by MPs.
#DWP #UniversalCredit
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