This month UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities Heba Hagrass and I wrote to the #UKGovernment expressing our concerns over the reform
process related to health and disability benefits in the UK #UniversalCreditBill #UCBill #PIP

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We must ask ourselves how this changes the social contract been us and the state and what this says about us as a society: are we no longer prepared to support or help those with severe, life long conditions or ill health? #welfarereform #universalcreditbill #socialpolicy

Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days afte…

Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… but eight days too late for MPs who voted for cuts
#UniversalCredit #UniversalCreditBill #DWP
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Only 17 peers back disabled people on cuts, as leading Tory says living on benefits is ‘not a life of dignity’ Just 17 peers were willing to support disabled people this week, following disablist comments by both Tories and a Labour member as the Lords rubber-stamped a bill to remove billions of pounds a ye…

Only 17 peers back disabled people on cuts, as leading Tory says living on benefits is ‘not a life of dignity’, while Labour peer echoes #KemiBadenoch
#UniversalCredit #UniversalCreditBill #Disablism
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Universal Credit Bill To complete Lords in a single day Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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The day for the UC Bill to be debated in the House of Lords is 22nd July

Reminder its a money bill so lords cant do anything to stop this bill from becoming law

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Labour backbench MP Rachael Maskell, a woman with blond hair in a plait, wearing a green blazer, speaking in the UK House of Commons in opposition to the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at its second reading on 1st July 2025, facing the Labour government front bench, on which the work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, a dark haired woman in a navy suit, sits flanked by work and pensions ministers Sir Stephen Timms and Andrew Westers and another author of the bill, Treasury minister Torsten Bell, all men in dark suits, all four of them wearing grim expressions.

The #Labour front bench, one year in, listening to Rachael Maskell MP pleading with them not to impoverish disabled people.
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