Parliament has passed the Universal Credit Bill — and with it, handed the Government power to slash support for sick and disabled people from 2026.

Despite warnings, MPs voted down all amendments that would have stopped it.

The so-called Timms review?

It’s advisory only. (Just like *brEXIT!)

Read how MPs failed those they were meant to protect.

*Pablo says, Taking a note of Tories dirty deeds, the red Tories as labour, shags us!

#UCbill #DisabilityRights #WelfareCuts #TimmsReview #PIP #UniversalCredit #DWP #Labour #Tories
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98947

The proposed #UKGov #PIP Law actually appears to be unlawful!

‘The legal opinion says: “there can be no doubt that the reforms are regressive in #HumanRights terms. Therefore, in accordance with the principle of non-retrogression, they are presumed to be prohibited under #UNCRPD, #ICESCR and #UNCRC. Accordingly, the burden falls on the Government to show that despite the regressive nature of the reforms, they are complying with their obligations under the Treaties.”’

https://www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/welfare-reforms-breach-international-law-says-new-expert-legal-opinion

“#Pension benefits for the wealthy are, on average, more than maximum #PIP payments a year” #RichardMurphy

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/28/pension-benefits-for-the-wealthy-are-on-average-more-than-maximum-pip-payments-a-year/

Cartoon, Martin Ross

“If you asked Keir Starmer to sit down and write on a piece of paper the three things he’d be remembered for in 50 years, what would he say? I bet he couldn’t do it.”

#UKPol #Labour #Benefits #PIP

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/a-show-of-farce/

#welfare #pip #benefit #dwp #UKPol FYI The minister with ultimate responsibility is Sir Stephen Timms. We went to the same school. He went to Oxford, I went to the LSE. His politics was zero until our paths crossed in the 6th form. It is also worth noting he describes himself as an 'evangelical Christian'. I am a good Wesleyan Methodist. I'll just leave that here.

Good wishes and all power to the Labour rebels today. They won't vote to push 150,000 disabled people into poverty.

Kendall's changes will come in Nov26, and will only affect new claimants.

LK also promised a review into the assessment process in partnership with #disability organisations, due to be completed in autumn 2026.

But many Labour MPs questioned the rationale for making changes to the qualifying criteria BEFORE the review was finished

Kendall said any recommendations from the review - to be led by disability minister Stephen Timms - would be implemented "as soon as possible"

Yeah, right

Rosie Jones, the comedian and #disabled activist, makes a good point about the #welfarereformbill on #BBCLauraK

She says people like her are protected, and she understands that new claimants will be reassessed under a different framework, but what if she is wholly reassessed herself?

Would her #PIP be torn up and reassessed afresh?

“Whether you acquire disability at birth, five years ago or tomorrow, it should be the same for everyone.”

“These concessions aren’t enough and they should worry us all. If you become disabled tomorrow, you risk not having the support you need.”

#UKPol #Labour #Welfare #Benefits #PIP

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/27/no-10-climb-down-over-welfare-bill-move-win-rebels

Labour’s still taking the PIP https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/labours-still-taking-the-pip/
#Labour
#WelfareCuts
#PIP

Two-tier #Pip

My illness is not as bad as your illness

THE STATE SAYS SO !

Keir Starmer is facing the biggest rebellion of his leadership — and now the Tories are offering to help him pass his cruel cuts to disability benefits.

This is a pivotal moment.

Here’s what’s really going on.

Read on here https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98710

It’s happening again!

In 2014, we warned that the government was pushing disabled people toward suicide — “chequebook euthanasia,” based on economic arguments that echo Binding and Hoche.

Now Labour has written that logic into law.
Clause 5 of the new benefits Bill will remove support from hundreds of thousands — and cost lives.

We’ve seen this strategy before. And history shows where it leads.

Read our full exposé — and share before it’s too late.

#CutsKill #DisabilityRights #Labour #PIP #UniversalCredit #VoxPolitical #SocialJustice #AktionT4 #WelfareReform #ChequebookEuthanasia
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98702

PIP is an IN-WORK benefit, paid to disabled people to assist with the additional costs of being a disabled worker.

People receiving PIP payments PAY TAX.

Cutting payments will make it more difficult, even impossible, for them to work. It will cost the government more in lost taxation than it will save!

#Starmer is well aware that #Pip is not an ‘out of work benefit’, quite the contrary, it helps offset the cost of being #disabled and getting to work…but he’s made statements like this today

“There is a clear moral case, which is: the current system doesn’t help those who want to get into work,”

“It traps people. I think it’s 1,000 people a day going on to Pip. The additions to Pip each year are the equivalent of a city the size of Leicester. That is not a system that can be left unreformed.”

"A benefits system that systematically disregards menstruation, personal care, and continence management for disabled women cannot credibly claim to meet its legal obligations to promote equality and eliminate discrimination.”
Dharshana Sridhar, Spinal Injuries Association.

#WelfareBill #PIP #Disability #UKPolitics

Labour’s benefit cuts will have ‘devastating’ impact on disabled women, say charities | Disability | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/labours-benefit-cuts-may-discriminate-against-disabled-women-say-charities

#dwp #pip I swear I'm going mad. The government keeps saying they're trying to cut PIP to help people into work. Newspapers are taking that argument at face value and writing from that perspective; cutting pip pushes disabled people into work.
PIP IS NOT AN OUT OF WORK BENEFIT. RECIPIENTS ARE OFTEN ABLE TO WORK *BECAUSE* THEY GET PIP. CUTTING PIP WILL MAKE IT *HARDER* FOR DISABLED PEOPLE TO WORK.

GAAAAAH

Example https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/24/keir-starmer-disability-benefit-reforms-rebellion-by-mps