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The government is keeping secret the location of venues for public consultations about the Pathways to Work Green Paper.  Individuals who manage to get a ticket will be informed of the venue by email only after bookings have closed, presumably in an effort to reduce the possibility of demonstrations taking place outside.

Tickets are now available for nine in-person events between 30 April and 24 June in London, Manchester, Plymouth, Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, Birmingham and Nottingham.

Reasonable travel costs will be reimbursed for those attending in a personal capacity.

People hoping to get tickets may be greeted by a notice saying the event is sold out or closed, even though it isn’t.  The organisers say that “To ensure we hear from a range of voices ticket releases will be automatically staggered so please check back later. “  There is no indication of what the final date for bookings will be.

There will also be a series of six virtual events.  However, each of these is very limited in scope, dealing with a single chapter in the Green Paper such as “Supporting people to thrive”.

More information and links to booking forms are on this page.

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    James
    · 4 days ago
    The road to hell is paved with good intentions
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    Kitty
    · 4 days ago
    Would be useful to have similar for the effects of changes to UC health component based on 4 points. I know loads of people who don't receive PIP, many of whom should be currently eligible but either didn't appeal an incorrect decision or haven't even applied because they thought they wouldn't get it. Obviously these people have been able to get by so far without PIP but now they are faced with being forced to look for work they can't possibly do. 
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      Louise
      · 1 days ago
      @Kitty I believe some of the most disabled people claim LCWRA only because they are scared of the DWP and reassessments, particularly where mental health is concerned. Errol Graham, the gentleman who starved to death when is LCWRA was stopped is a perfect example. 
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      Cecelia
      · 2 days ago
      @ANGELA You should more money on Universal Credit
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      Anon
      · 2 days ago
      @Kitty Thank you for explaining what you meant - glad we are on the same page!
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 2 days ago
      @ANGELA Which benefits are you currently getting, Angela? Jamie is correct about transitional protection. You will get at least the same amount on UC as you get now, if not more. 
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      Jamie
      · 2 days ago
      @ANGELA Nobody loses anything when they move to UC. You have transistional protection. I can gaurentee, you won't lose anything.
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    gingin
    · 4 days ago
    My answers to the so called Govt consultation: 

    What further steps could the Department for Work and Pensions take to make sure the benefit system supports people to try work without the worry that it may affect their benefit entitlement?
    Thousands of people who will lose their PIP due to not being awarded 4 points in daily living will also lose their LCWRA and their family carer but are still too sick or disabled to work. Labour knows this but wants to save money and gain political points at the expense of people's safety and health.

    What support do you think we could provide for those who will lose their Personal Independence Payment entitlement as a result of a new additional requirement to score at least four points on one daily living activity?
    This government is not interested in supporting people. If they were, they would not add the 4 point rule. My husband's health is very poor due to a genetic condition and no employer would have him or put up with him for long. We need financial help, plain and simple, or we and our children will be destitute. I work, but cannot work full time, as I care for my husband. 

    How could we improve the experience of the health and care system for people who are claiming Personal Independence Payment who would lose entitlement? 
    We need money to live! We need a roof over our head, to pay our bills and to feed ourselves and our children. If a disabled person is unable to work, no amount of 'support' from a work coach will change this. My husband's condition is genetic and he is only going to deteriorate, yet this brutal 4 point rule will mean he gets no financial help at all. No health intervention will cure him or make a significant difference to his myriad of symptoms. 

    How could we introduce a new Unemployment Insurance, how long should it last for and what support should be provided during this time to support people to adjust to changes in their life and get back into work? 
    Disabled people need long-term financial support for life if they are unable to work. Thousands of disabled people who only score 2 or 3 in the PIP assessment are very, very ill and unable to work! They did not choose to be born disabled! Do they have no value to our society if they cannot work?

    What practical steps could we take to improve our current approach to safeguarding people who use our services? 
    Stop penalising, demonising and discriminating against the sickest people in our society. Do you seriously want to safeguard disabled people? You have put the long term sick and disabled through terrible stress and fear over the last few months, and this continues. I cannot believe you care about safeguarding them.

    How should the support conversation be designed and delivered so that it is welcomed by individuals and is effective? 
    People who are unable to work, many of whom only score 2 or 3 in their PIP assessment categories, will not be helped by a support conversation. They are unable to work and employers do not want to employ them. If they were to work, they would not last long. You know that in this economic climate particularly these people will not gain employment. You know this, so stop deceiving the public. You only want to save money. You have no interest in the welfare of disabled people. Disabled people need financial help, not support conversations. Disability is expensive, and it is NOT a life choice. Who would choose to live with a disability??

    How should we design and deliver conversations to people who currently receive no or little contact, so that they are most effective? 
    Have some respect for disabled people by giving them the financial support they desperately need, not conversations. Stop hounding and persecuting them. There but for the grace of God go you. 

    How we should determine who is subject to a requirement only to participate in conversations, or work preparation activity rather than the stronger requirements placed on people in the Intensive Work Search regime?
    Don't implement the 4 point rule. Have some sense. Speak to disabled people and see for yourselves that many are too sick to work, who would not be awarded 4 points. Stop designing assessments whose main purpose is to deny people the support they genuinely need or to catch them out. 

    Should we require most people to participate in a support conversation as a condition of receipt of their full benefit award or of the health element in Universal Credit? 
    The support conversation is meaningless and useless to those disabled people who don't score 4 in one PIP category but are too unwell to work. You know this. You are ticking boxes and fulfilling a PR exercise. Disabled people need financial help to live. They have not chosen to be seriously unwell. The best support you could give is to stop harassing and demonising those who have more than enough on their plate just managing their many health issues. 

    How should we determine which individuals or groups of individuals should be exempt from requirements? 
    I have no idea, but the 4 point rule blatantly flaunts basic human rights. PIP should not be linked in any way to work. Removing PIP from thousands of seriously ill people will also cause them to lose any financial support at all. You are effectively subjecting people who will lose their PIP to work requirements, when many of them work already, but would not be able to afford to without the financial support of PIP. Clever move??

    Should we delay access to the health element of Universal Credit within the reformed system until someone is aged 22? 
    I fail to see how someone does not require financial support to live with expensive disability just because they're younger. 

    How can we support and ensure employers, including Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, to know what workplace adjustments they can make to help employees with a disability or health condition?  
    You know that these proposals are simply a cynical move to save money and gain political points. Unless you live in La La land you know that employers are unable and unwilling to take on the expense and effort of accommodating a disabled person to work, who is too sick to do so. As if there are even enough jobs for the fit and well.  

    What should DWP directly fund for both employers and individuals to maximise the impact of a future Access to Work and reach as many people as possible?   
    Just give the disabled who are too sick to work enough to live to a minimally decent standard and stop these cynical and cruel proposals. Managing their health is already a full time job. 

    At this point I gave up answering their stupid questions. 
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 2 days ago
      @robbie I thought the same. Old enough and adult enough to vote at 16, but not an adult until 22 when it comes to getting the same benefits.

      Labour wanting to lower the voting age could spectacularly backfired on them. Many 16 and 17 year-olds have said they would vote Reform. 
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      Frances
      · 2 days ago
      @LeeLawson Not a mistake, just an attack from a different angle. Go with what works for you, we should all put things our own way. The important thing is to show we're not taken in by their deceit.
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      robbie
      · 2 days ago
      @WorkshyLayabout So they're planning to delay access to the health element of Universal Credit within the reformed system until someone is aged 22, but they're giving them the vote from 16 🤔
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      Frances
      · 2 days ago
      @gingin That's the way, though, @gingin, b*gger the questions, just say what needs to be said!
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 2 days ago
      @gingin "Should we delay access to the health element of Universal Credit within the reformed system until someone is aged 22?
      I fail to see how someone does not require financial support to live with expensive disability just because they're younger."

      As a guess, most under 22s are still living at home and Labour expects parents to be making up the financial shortfall. 
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    Scorpion
    · 4 days ago
    "Disabled organisers refuse to meet ministers over DWP benefits cuts and the fact that the government is not consulting on these cuts."


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      ANGELA
      · 3 days ago
      @gingin I read an interview with him today. His statements are appalling… 
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      SLB
      · 4 days ago
      @Scorpion well, so it says in the headline, and then tells you they are merely considering the move, although some people have resigned - although that seems are rather daft move, as it's no doubt easier to make changes from within than outside such organisations.
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      gingin
      · 4 days ago
      @Scorpion I can't believe the 'putting disabled people at the heart of everything we do' trash was repeated not once, but twice again by Mr Timms in that interview. It is beyond disingenuous. He and his crooked party should be ashamed. Not a scrap of integrity among them. 
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    Scorpion
    · 4 days ago
    We come across "PIP cuts" all over the internet, including in the newspapers, yet no PIP cuts have been proposed. The cuts target people on LCWRA, yet no one is mentioning this fact, leave alone drawing special attention to it. Particularly, the cohort of claimants who are only on LCWRA and do not receive any PIP, as they're risking to lose their sole social security payment all of a sudden and, in result, become at the mercy of UC and all the dreadful paraphernalia that goes along with. 


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      Neil Cook
      · 3 days ago
      @Anon Would being on an indefinite fit note have any bearing on wether or not u get pulled on for an assessment 
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      rookie
      · 3 days ago
      @Scorpion Agreed you would lose lcwra, and you would have to comply with conditions, but you would not lose all your social security payment, because you would be re-classed as lcw or looking for work.

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      LeeLawson
      · 3 days ago
      @Kitty The New Economics Foundation estimates that the cuts actually amount to £7 billion and that the government has used a statistical sleight of hand to say the cuts only amount to £5 billion.
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      ANGELA
      · 3 days ago
      @Scorpion Read up on the 4 point criteria for PIP. People on PIP and LCWRA could lose up to 10K a year. 

      BOTH things are barbaric. 

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      Bern400
      · 4 days ago
      @SLB @SLB - cuts to UC Health (LCWRA)will effect current claimants if they fail their next WCA or PIP reassessment. Recently the DWP confirmed WCA assessments will recommence until it's abolition.  The DWP also confirmed it plans to conduct more frequent PIP reassessments including for claimants on 10 year or continuous awards. 
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    Bern400
    · 4 days ago
    Dear MP/Councillor,

    Re: Urgent Concerns About Flawed Green Paper Consultation on Disability Benefits

    I am writing to express my deep concern about the current Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation titled “Modernising Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper”, which proposes significant changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Universal Credit (UC), and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).

    While these changes will have profound and life-altering consequences for disabled people, the DWP has refused to consult on the most critical proposals, including:

    Abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)
    Freezing the UC health element (LCWRA) until 2029/30
    Introducing a new requirement to score at least 4 points in a single descriptor to receive the daily living component of PIP
    Merging PIP and UC assessments into a single system
    Restarting WCA reassessments ahead of its abolition

    These are major reforms with serious consequences for people with physical conditions, mental health challenges, neurodivergent profiles and fluctuating conditions — yet the public is being denied the opportunity to comment on them.

    The government's own Impact Assessment (independently verified by the OBR) of these proposals show that:

    370,00 current PIP recipients expected to lose entitlement to the daily living component on review and 430,000 future recipients. Average loss is £4,500 per year.
     
    150,000 current Carer's Allowance recipients (average loss of £4,200 per year)

    2.25m current recipients of UC Health to be impacted by the freeze (average loss of £500 per year – although they will also see a small rise in cash terms from the standard allowance)

    730,000 future recipients of UC health (average loss of £3,000 per year).

    The vast majority (96%) of families that lose financially have someone with a disability in the household. These families losing out are also estimated to represent 20% of all families that report having someone with a disability in the household.

    It is estimated that there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty as a result of these changes to benefits.

    The fiction that Rachel Reeves is spinning is that the claimants who lose their PIP will be able to make up their lost income by working. This claim is nonsensical because:

    Many PIP claimants already work.
    Many PIP claimants are physically and/or mentally unable to work.

    Currently 800,000 job vacancies in the UK but 1.5million unemployed people actively looking for work. So what chance do 370,000 disabled people (soon to be stripped of their PIP) and 150,000 carers (soon to be stripped of the Carer's Allowance) have of securing work to make up their lost benefits income?

    This Green Paper risks causing serious harm to thousands of disabled people — not just through its policy proposals, but through the way it is being conducted. A consultation that does not allow people to respond to the most important questions is not just flawed — it is undemocratic.

    Please stand up for fairness, transparency, and the rights of disabled people by challenging this process and demanding a lawful, open, and inclusive approach.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I would be grateful for a response outlining your position and any steps you plan to take.

    Yours sincerely, 
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      Laura
      · 3 days ago
      @Bern400 That's great Bern, very explanatory and clearly pointing out the detrimental effects of these changes, really hope they reply, after you taking the time to write this it would be really shameful if they don't.
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      sara
      · 4 days ago
      @Bern400 Well done, Bern400. Hope you get a respectful reply.
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      Anon
      · 4 days ago
      @Bern400 Brilliant!
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    The Dogmother
    · 4 days ago
    I'm so despondent, feel lost, Then i come on here and read uplifting posts from some I'd call 'Warrior's' and i get a wee sparkle of hope
     I want to say thanks to many of you who have generated that hope in myself and others. Thank you again.
    Xx
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      Laura
      · 3 days ago
      @The Dogmother Ditto Dogmother, it really helps to stand together x
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      SLB
      · 4 days ago
      @The Dogmother It's difficult not to be despondent, knowing that we might all face a cliff edge in little more than eighteen month's time.  And then another in 2028 where we could get hit again.  But there's glimmers of hope out there.  Despite Trump hogging the UK headlines for a week, there are still news stories about the benefit cuts.  We now know of two inquiries - one into poverty and the disabled (which probably would have happened with or without the cuts), and the other about the cuts themselves.  It's easy to shrug them off as "just a formality," but they are not really.  Can they persuade the government to change course?  Not on their own.  But those inquries + pressure from charities (who seem to be speaking out more) + angered back benchers + possibly humiliating results in next month's elections could lead to something.  I feel more hopeful of a rowing back on what's going on now than I did two weeks ago.  But what the hell do I know!  lol
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    Ilo
    · 4 days ago
    I've got a ticket for Leeds. Got one as soon as I saw this in the i paper. I'm representing my husband who cannot attend due to his disability.
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      ANGELA
      · 3 days ago
      @Ilo Can you please post time/ date and venue. Thanks ✊
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      Laura
      · 3 days ago
      @Gingin Best of luck to you too x
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      Laura
      · 3 days ago
      @Ilo Good on you and the best of luck, I'm in NI but there hasn't been any meetings proposed here.
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      Gingin
      · 4 days ago
      @Ilo Hi, I’m representing my husband too, and myself as his carer- Cardiff. Glad you got a ticket 
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      Onyx123
      · 4 days ago
      @Ilo Hopefully people will release the locations on forums to give people the heads up.
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    Slb
    · 4 days ago
    Some of you might remember that I wrote a lengthy blog post when the cuts were announced.  Last week, when the Work and Pensions committee announced their inquiry, I sent it to them via email.  I didn't think they would read it as there has been no call for evidence from them.  However I did get an email back yesterday saying it would be shared with the committee.   Whether that means it will actually be read or not is another thing, but it's better than the committee ignoring it completely. 
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    Joe Blogs
    · 4 days ago
    What consultation, the government is going full steam ahead and preparing regardless to make disabled people work?

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      Cecelia
      · 3 days ago
      @WorkshyLayabout The job centre will probably hoodwink claimants.
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 4 days ago
      @Sam But will the DWP tells jobseekers it's voluntary or will they keep very quiet about the fact? 
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      Sam
      · 4 days ago
      @Joe Blogs It's talking about connect to work which is a voluntary scheme. 
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      SLB
      · 4 days ago
      @Joe Blogs Joe, this is not the same as the welfare cuts or the changes to PIP eligibility.  One hard and fast rule should always be to ignore the websites that have a place name and "Live" after it.   They are there to get you to click on their ad-laden sites through misleading or provocative headlines.  Never trust them.  There are plenty of reliable news outlets out there - these sites don't fit into those categories.
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      James
      · 4 days ago
      @Joe Blogs I think the newspapers get terminologies mixed up as do our ministers and prime minister. This may be a roll out of the test areas for those with LCW. Good luck to them in finding jobs that are suitable because they will soon discover without an employer's cooperation all their efforts will be fraught with issues and failures 
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    Tracey Castle
    · 4 days ago
    Even if I could get a ticket, I am not fit enough to attend.
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      K
      · 4 days ago
      @Slb As mentioned in the BW advice above "However, each of these is very limited in scope, dealing with a single chapter in the Green Paper such as “Supporting people to thrive”. 
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      Slb
      · 4 days ago
      @Tracey Castle There are online ones too 
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    Claire Johnson
    · 4 days ago
    For a Prime Minister who was a Human Rights lawyer, it is unfathomable why he is taking this attitude and brutal approach towards lowering the welfare bill cost. When you put money before people then sadly it is disabled people who will lose out. By the very name of PIP, it is our lifeline but we need to fight back. My local Labour MP supports the decision, she even smiled on TV when she said it but I will be making an appointment to see her. I noticed in the poll from the public that their comments support people with physical disabilities and that's fine but there was no mention of mental health. The Govt are saying that they won't accept GP evidence and only a psychiatrist, it is impossible to get an appointment to see one in my area, my GP has tried for over a year. 
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 2 days ago
      @Matt Labour, Tories and Reform MPs all argue, criticise and shout at each other during political debates, then afterwards they are all pally and having a good old chinwag. 
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      Matt
      · 3 days ago
      @Matt I should have elaborated on my comment above: my mother brought up five children on her own. (My father died when I was 11). There was no disability benefits (as far as I am aware) in 1979.  All she received was the family allowance and a widow's pension.  She worked part time, firstly in the local library, and then in a posh fashion shop in Sidmouth (where she was brought up).  She was very angry at the lack of assistance available, although she was adamant that she did not want social services around either.  One suspects Starmer's mother had similar views which has rubbed off on him. I understand he first attended the University of Leeds (a fine redbrick institution) before going onto Oxford. Unfortunately, when at Oxford, he would encountered the likes of Boris Johnson.....
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      K
      · 4 days ago
      @Cecelia With Stills disease " towards the last years of her life she couldn’t walk, she couldn’t move her limbs, she couldn’t speak" ( direct quote from the PM) So what work could she do? Many on UC or PIP are at an end stage of an illness and won't see a pension at 60yo as the PMs mum did. One hopes those with this disease will not be subject to work conditionality like the PM's mum. 
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      WorkshyLayabout
      · 4 days ago
      @Matt Starmer has a well read copy of Niccoló Machiavelli's The Prince on his bedside table. A handbook on ruthless self serving politics. Labour’s manifesto was written in the 16th century. 

      Politics have no relation to morals.
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      Matt
      · 4 days ago
      @Cecelia So Starmer is a very bitter man. My mother was similar.
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    Frances
    · 4 days ago
    Here's the whole of my post

    B&W have done a good thing setting up an independent survey, see:

    "Can you give evidence of the effect of PIP cuts?"

    We must all do our best to complete it as a way to submit our own personal impact statement in order to counter the government's bogus consultation which doesn't ask the right questions and so stands in the way of truth.

    If you possibly can, please also complete the government survey, steering away from their questions and giving your own answers.

    The government cannot be allowed to hide behind skewed statistics, pretence of savings and nonsense about changes in behaviour. They and the Work and Pensions Committee Green Paper inquiry should be faced with real cases, accounts from each of us of what we stand to lose.
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    Frances
    · 4 days ago
    B&W have done a good thing setting up an independent survey, see:

    "Can you give evidence of the effect of PIP cuts?"

    We must all do our best to complete it as a way to submit our own personal impact statement in order to counter the government's bogus consultation which doesn't ask the right questions and so stands in the way of truth. 

    If you possibly ca
    Work and Pensions Committee Green Paper inquiry
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    Tom Hunter
    · 4 days ago
    Apparently no public consultation in Northern Ireland. Thanks Labour. 
    And we will follow whatever is decided at Westminster 
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    Sick and Tired
    · 4 days ago
    I think the fact all the Petitions against the cuts are struggling to get even 100 Thousand Votes, sadly shows that the general public don't care  :o(  In the age of social media one would have hoped for millions of votes.
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      Moonlight
      · 4 days ago
      @Sick and Tired I’ve signed up four petitions so far, still waiting for email to verify email address, without verification my signature won’t count! Has anyone else encountered same issue? 
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      Anon
      · 4 days ago
      @Sick and Tired They don't care.

      But even if a petition got over a million signatures, the government would ignore it.

      Petitions don't work. During the pandemic a petition got several million signatures and nothing came of it.

      This is not a democracy. It's a feudal kingdom, with a democratic front to keep the peasants subdued.
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    Gingin
    · 5 days ago
    Concern raised today in the media (thanks to another poster for flagging these from the Guardian):

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/08/ill-disabled-people-uk-benefit-cuts-policy-in-practice
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      Anon
      · 3 days ago
      @Matt Exactly.
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      Cecelia
      · 4 days ago
      @MJ Nobody cares
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      Matt
      · 4 days ago
      @MJ What is needed are articles in the right wing press to illustrate that these reforms will cost more, not less, with increased demand for medical and social care, housing benefit etc. And this would need to be funded by increased taxes.  It's the only language the public understands....and basically the reason why Labour are going ahead with the plans.  The Guardian (I'm not much of fan of the paper) has correctly mentioned in the past - the electorate (especially the English) want European levels of public services, at US levels of taxation.
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      MJ
      · 5 days ago
      @Gingin Those are things that have been said previously in the media not long after the green paper come out, it is good that articles like this are being published but they need to now start printing new articles looking into other worrying concerns and likely disastrous outcomes of these cuts not regurgitating the same aspects and figures over and over because it becomes mundane, people will switch off and it is easy for the government to bat the same info away. There needs to be some investigative journalism and research, getting down to the real nitty gritty of what is likely to happen. Haven't read anything like that recently other than the same stuff being said. 
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    Cecelia
    · 5 days ago
    Keir Starmer has said that disability claimants might change their way of thinking and their attitude towards work faced with losing their benefits and interesting comment
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      Anon
      · 3 days ago
      @MJ A better set of reforms would include:

      Conducting better WCAs, with perhaps more qualified health professionals.
      Doing reassessments more frequently.
      Creating millions of new jobs. Raising minimum wage to £14 per hour.
      Raising the tax free allowance to £20,000 per year
      *Right to try work no-reassessment guarantee for LCWRA claimants
      *Passing the employee rights bill
      Simplifying the processes.
      Reducing waste.
      Legislating caps on rents and rent increases.
      And other socially constructive things.

      * the only two positive things they are doing

      But they won't do any of those other things.
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      Ilo
      · 4 days ago
      @Cecelia Punishing people into work will not work. He will have deaths. 
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      Gingin
      · 4 days ago
      @MJ Totally agree about Starmer’s twisted narrative which is outrageous, insulting, and dangerous 
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      Starmer is a dictator
      · 4 days ago
      @Cecelia Starmer was not elected on a manifesto of impoverishing disabls people.

      He is every bit as much of an anti-democratic dictator as Putin.
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      MJ
      · 5 days ago
      @Cecelia Not interesting, dangerously absurd, he thinks the majority will suddenly welcome work with open arms because they are poverty stricken, no they won't! That is outrageous. 

      Those that can't work at all still won't be able to. He thinks that taking benefits off a disabled person can suddenly make them fit to work, raise them up like Lazarus, then he really hasn't clue and is delusional. Others that perhaps can physically work but have bad mental health issues/conditions that make it very difficult won't suddenly change their mental make up or brain chemistry because they are destitute and suddenly become enthusiastic to work, only a fool would think that,  how can someone not realise it is far more likely to make their (our) thinking and mental state of mind much worse. Cloud cuckooland. 
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    Anon
    · 5 days ago
    Somebody please ask them why they don't have the balls to tax the rich.

    And tell them cutting benefits for the most vulnerable people in society does not mean you have balls......it means you're either a sociopath or a psychopath.

    Maybe I could email this to my MP.
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      Matt
      · 4 days ago
      @WorkshyLayabout In your case, save your breath! Reform may be the insurgent party but like the Republicans in the US, only care for the very rich.
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      Cecelia
      · 4 days ago
      @Anon That's capitalism
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      Anon
      · 4 days ago
      @Derek Tax billionaires. Tax Big Oil. Tax Big Banking.

      Why does one person even need billions for himself?

      Is he living in a vacuum? Did he evolve sepatately? Let him help the less fortunate.
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      Anon
      · 4 days ago
      @Derek The patriotic millionaires are okay with a 2% tax on their wealth.
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      Derek
      · 5 days ago
      @Anon Because so many have fleed the country already,
      2022: A net outflow of 1,400 millionaires. 
      2024: A net loss of 10,800 millionaires, more than double the number who left in 2023. 
      Reasons for the outflow:
      Brexit's economic toll. 
      A turbulent political climate. 
      A creaking economy. 
      The movement of well-paid traders and bankers from the City of London to financial centers in the EU like Paris and Milan. 
      Higher taxes. 
      The growing dominance of the United States and Asia in the tech sector. 
      The crumbling UK healthcare system. 
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    DJ
    · 5 days ago
    Due to the secrecy, of these events, the way in which they are strategically planning them, it does strike me that they are becoming a little bit scared.  GOOD!

    What are they calling these events?

    Oh yeah I KNOW

    IT'S TIME TO MEET THE MUPPETS ON THE STARMER SHOW TONIGHT.

    JACKANORY TIME AGAIN. 

    I would imagine that all the disability charities etc.., that will be attending, or should be automatically invited, They will take along the petitions that we have ALL signed here there and everywhere and ALL the other correspondence. Of the extent of objection.

    Then after these events  Starmer will be able to say, 'We held 9 events in person and six virtual events' 

    This has been FIXED from the outset.

    WHAT THIS GOVERNMENT ARE FAILING TO COMPREHEND IS THEY CAN TRY AND KEEP IT SECRET AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE. 

    IT WILL NOT STOP THE PROTESTS. 






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