I just signed the petition “TAX WEALTH – DON'T CUT DISABILITY SUPPORT” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 50,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://chng.it/K4rj2Vb6fh

Thanks!
Jules
#petition #wealthtax #disability #DisabilityRightsUK #DisabilityRights

I just signed the petition “TAX WEALTH – DON'T CUT DISABILITY SUPPORT” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 25,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://chng.it/K4rj2Vb6fh

Thanks!
Jules
#DisabilityRightsUK #disabilityBenefits #disabilitySupport #taxWealth #WealthTaxNow #WealthConcentration

I just signed the petition “Reform the Recent Changes to Disability Benefits” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 1,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://chng.it/WkHhRCnC99

Thanks!
Jules
#pip #uk #DisabilityRightsUK #disabilityBenefits

UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits

by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025

Excerpt:

'Trapped out of work'

"The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.

"Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.

"#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.

"However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.

"The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz1g8q9o
#DisabilityRights #UKPol #BudgetCuts #TaxTheRich #AbolishTheMonarchy

Challenges to deprivation of liberty orders in England soar by a third | Social care | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/04/deprivation-of-liberty-orders-england-cuts-public-services

#DeprivationOfLibertySafeguarding
#DeprivationOfLibertyOrders
#DeprivationOfLiberty
#SocialCare
#Dementia
#LearningDisabilities
#BrainInjury
#DrugProblems
#AlcoholProblems
#Addiction
#CareWorkers
#DisabilityRightsUK
#FundingCuts
#CutsToServices
#DoLS
#MentalCapacity
#AgeUK
#MentalHealthAct
#MentalHealth
#Court

Sample of disabled people forced onto universal credit shows every one of them now receives less in benefits – Disability News Service
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sample-of-disabled-people-forced-onto-universal-credit-shows-every-one-of-them-now-receives-less-in-benefits/

#Disabled
#ManagedMigration
#UniversalCredit
#LegacyBenefits
#LeighDay
#DWP
#Tories
#Benefits
#DisabilityRightsUK
#Disabilities

DWP may have 'broken the law' over treatment of disabled people - Big Issue
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-investigation-disabled-people-benefits/

#DWP
#Disabled
#WarOnTheDisabled
#Law
#HumanRights
#DisabilityRights
#EHRC
#LearningDisabilities
#WarOnTheMentallyIll
#MentalHealth
#MentallyIll
#Ableism
#HateSpeech
#Snooping
#Benefits
#Deaths
#RethinkMentalIllness
#Starvation
#DiabeticKetoacidosis
#DisabilityRightsUK
#Poverty

So I just went over to X-itter so I could hurl invective at Rishi Sunak demonising the disabled &. I tell you I could feel my blood boiling within minutes of being there. So much better being back in the #Fediverse

#ToryScum #DisabilityRightsUK

https://youtu.be/sLcdhQ5ciCE

Scrap plans to scan accounts of benefit claimants or risk new scandal, MPs told | Benefits | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/04/ministers-urged-to-scrap-plans-for-surveillance-of-benefit-claimants-bank-accounts

#Benefits
#BankAccountChecks
#BankAccounts
#Scandal
#MPs
#DWP
#AutomatedChecks
#Automation
#DisabilityRightsUK
#BigBrotherWatch
#DisabilityRights
#Carers
#CarersRights
#Disabled
#Pensioners
#CriminalByDefault
#DataProtectionAndDigitalInformationBill
#ChildPovertyAction
#Mind
#AgeUK
#ErrorsInBenefitsTopUps
#UC

#Bristol 'faces a budget hole of £17m next year...#BristolCouncil is proposing...if a #disabled person’s in-home care is not considered “best value”, they could be told to live in a care home instead. It is the stuff of a domestic horror movie: a bureaucrat deems your life too expensive, and you’re forced to pack your bags and spend the rest of your days in an institution.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/25/warehouse-disabled-people-bristol-city-council
-Frances Ryan, Guardian opinion.

Sign language at the Covid inquiry: Still no BSL interpreters after a year | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-british-sign-language-interpreters-disability-rights-uk/

#SignLanguage
#Accessability
#Covid
#CovidInquiry
#BSL
#BSLInterpreters
#DisabilityRightsUK
#DisabilityActionNorthernIreland
#InclusionScotland
#DisabilityWales
#AutomaticSubtitlesErrorStrewn