Disability Rights UK have launched a new page on the DR UK website containing information and resources regarding the recent green paper plan on benefit cuts and how people can get involved in responding.
The fallout from the recent announcements of benefit cuts and reforms has sent shockwaves through Disabled peoples organisations, disability charities and allies such as Amnesty, the Trussel Trust and many more, who all agree the cuts proposed will be catastrophic.
According to the Government, the benefits system is out of control, with far too many disabled people wrongly receiving benefits. This is not the true picture.
Social security spending overall is not increasing in any significant way.
Inclusion London have made clear that in 2023/4 the UK spent 4.88% of GDP on non-pensioner social security payments, which is lower than it was in 2009 (5.75%), the comparison year the Office for Budget Responsibility used in its 2024 Welfare Trends Report on incapacity benefits.
This is a long-term trend is steady back to the 1990s. Fraud rates for disability benefits are practically non-existent: (PIP) fraud stood at 0% in the financial year ending 2024.
It is a fact that half of all people in poverty are disabled people. Disabled people can’t afford food, energy, housing and transport, and are the biggest users of Food Banks.
The community also faces additional costs related to impairments and health conditions, amounting to up to £1k extra a month and yet the Government intends to take £5 billion pounds from Disabled peoples incomes with its benefit reforms.
With the spring statement offering even less hope, there no humanitarian or economic sense of pushing more disabled people into poverty: we need to act.
The OBR has not yet been able to forecast any employment gain from the cuts/changes to incapacity & disability benefits, so effectively MPs are being asked to support these cuts without any clear assessment of what it will achieve.
These cuts are purely about saving money, nothing else. DR UK and its allies will not stay silent as benefits are cut, public services are slashed, & our rights are eroded, join us in the fight.
The Our new web page contains what action you can take how you can get involved in campaigning against these thebenefit cuta proposals how you can respond , for example responding to the consultation write writing to your MP and protesting.
Learn more about what we campaign on, and how you can campaign with us by visiting the Take Action page
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I need my benefits for extra things I have to pay for taxis because I can’t walk properly. Trains.etc.i have to eat.pay my gas.electic because its gone up again I need it to keep warm because of bad serclation. And have to pay for more money on electricity. It just won’t be good for my metal health to. There’s a lot off things you have not what a disability incounters it takes a lot more when you have disabilities. I don’t think I have taken any of this in consideration. By far.
I just carnt believe they doing this to sick disabled how can the elderly go to get jobs I’m 71 this year I’ve got ill heath it’s not getting any better it’s going to get worse I’ve a bloods problem spondylitis ov the spine I’ve a lung problem empasimia how is someone like me supposed go to work thay really do need to think about all this cutting thay doing to the elderly I get personally independent but Lowe one but if I lose that I loose pension credit to then what do I do for bills I have to have heating cos I’ve got raynards to in hands feet what we supposed to do your going have a lot over the elderly dieing is this what this goverment want blood on there hands cos that will happen you will get people taking there life cos thay carnt live ya work all ya life you get ill and this is how we get treated you must stop this madness
I cannot believe how people in such a sensitive position, who are not Doctors nor are the psychiatrics can have such tenacity to say that their patients has been overdiagnosed. This is disgraceful and they should apologise to the Doctors and the psychiatric. Having said that
Maybe they can show us the proof that they have got to justify such ignorant and bold allegations. No wonder.people with mental health condition go around killing people.
I would like to complain about the way the labour party has ruined older people left to die no food and heating this not the labour party I no