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policy, campaigns, & coproduction | #VAWG, disability, & migration | #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #cPTSD dyspraxic migrant #survivor | 🌈🌱✡️✍🏼 #disabled #ScrapNRPF

UK Katılım Mayıs 2019
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Apsana Begum MP
Apsana Begum MP@ApsanaBegumMP·
The Bill that MPs are voting on if passed will mean that: 750,000 low-paid sick & disabled new claimants will lose their Universal Credit health payments — a loss of £3,000 on average. This is still £2bn of cuts! I will still be voting against the Disability Benefit Cuts Bill.
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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust)
Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust)@Z2K_trust·
It’s very welcome that the government will remove the PIP cuts from the UC & PIP Bill. But this bill will still significantly cut support for seriously ill and disabled people on universal credit. The government must now scrap the whole bill and go back to the drawing board.
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Nadia Whittome MP
Nadia Whittome MP@NadiaWhittomeMP·
This is a complete mess. The government is promising new changes, new concessions, 90 minutes before MPs vote. None of this is written down. The Bill we are voting on tonight is unamended. This is an unacceptable way of making laws. Just pull the Bill.
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Inclusion London
Inclusion London@InclusionLondon·
Chaotic, rushed-through concessions drawn up on the back of a napkin are no way to make policy that will affect millions of people. MPs must vote NO on benefit cuts, and work with Disabled people to coproduce reforms to welfare that help Disabled people instead of punishing us.
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Cat Eccles MP
Cat Eccles MP@catecclesstour·
Minister Timms intervened mid debate to announce he's pulling Clause 5 (PIP clause) from the Bill at Committee. So why are we still debating and voting? This isn't how we make legislation. Pull the Bill.
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💙Rachael Maskell MP
💙Rachael Maskell MP@RachaelMaskell·
Tonight MPs have tabled a reasoned amendment on behalf of disabled people who have yet to have agency in this process. It is time their voices were heard. It is backed by 138 organisations @PippaCrerar @guardian
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar

EXCL: Labour MP Rachel Maskell has tabled a new reasoned amendment, designed to defeat the welfare bill at tomorrow’s second reading vote. So far it has the backing of 35 Labour MPs, with organisers suggesting more could add their names. Still some way short of the 83 required to overturn government majority. Incl MPs from other parties, it has 62 backers. Crucially, the amendment raises new concerns about the changes and has been backed by 138 disability groups. “The PM talked about ‘noises off’ but what we’re doing is raising the voices of disabled people,” Maskell said.

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Dr Marie Tidball MP
Dr Marie Tidball MP@MarieTidball·
There has been no public consultation with disabled people about the proposals on PIP. This is not just about process, it makes disabled people worse off. I've just asked what the Work and Pensions Secretary will do to ensure her department regains the trust of disabled people
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Tom Pollard
Tom Pollard@PollardTom·
The updated poverty impact assessment for the disability benefits cuts once again offsets the impact of not proceeding with the previous government's proposed plans The impact of actual changes happening in the real world is likely to be closer to 250k people pushed into poverty
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💙Rachael Maskell MP
💙Rachael Maskell MP@RachaelMaskell·
"These cuts are gendered and dangerous, and blow a hole through the government's VAWG work too. Surely this evidence will cause government to realise that they have overreached and must withdraw this bill." My quote to the @Independent - full story in comments 👇 #York
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Nadia Whittome MP
Nadia Whittome MP@NadiaWhittomeMP·
A plea to the media: please platform disabled people's organisations like @DisRightsUK. The most important story is not the drama in Westminster but about disabled people's futures. Disabled people's representatives must be heard - they're saying the concessions aren't enough.
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Zarah Sultana MP
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana·
I voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap — and had the Labour whip removed. I voted against cuts to winter fuel payments. And I’ll vote against any attack on disability benefits. Austerity 2.0 is a political choice — and I will always oppose it.
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Vicky Foxcroft 💙
Vicky Foxcroft 💙@vickyfoxcroft·
(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip. Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Foundation@jrf_uk·
Our analysis showed up to 400,000 people would be pushed into poverty by the Government's proposed disability benefits cuts. This was put to @Keir_Starmer by Debbie Abrahams MP at today's Liaison Committee. He said the cuts would 'change behaviour'. Watch below 🔽 1/2
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Foundation@jrf_uk·
At the Budget, we called on the Government to unfreeze LHA so that it was tied to local rents. This didn't happen. The result? Just 2.5% of private rentals in England are affordable for people receiving housing benefit. Read more in this report from @healthequals @crisis_uk👇
Crisis@crisis_uk

Freezing housing benefits runs the risk of people having to sleep rough, or remain in temporary accommodation that damages their health & wellbeing. We're calling on the UK Gov to restore housing benefit to match the true cost of rent. Email your MP today.bit.ly/3E41KW7

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Pippa Crerar
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar·
BREAKING: Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty
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Trussell
Trussell@TrussellUK·
🚨BREAKING: Almost 1 in 5 people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have used a food bank in the last month. Hunger and hardship are already at record levels, and social security cuts risk pushing even more people to food banks.
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Frances Ryan
Frances Ryan@DrFrancesRyan·
Labour’s reported disability benefit cuts are not just about budgeting but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else). My col. in tomorrow’s paper. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Apsana Begum MP
Apsana Begum MP@ApsanaBegumMP·
There’s evidence about serious harms caused to disabled people put through the DWP’s dehumanising assessments & sanctions —with reports of deaths directly related to the social security regime. Cutting their benefits will have disastrous consequences. Tax the super-rich instead.
Anushka Asthana@AnushkaAsthana

Exclusive- we can reveal details of the Government's welfare shake up. Over £6bn saved in total, 5 of which come from making it harder to get Personal Independence Payments, PIP will also be frozen next year so no rise with inflation & overhaul of out of work benefits as well 1/

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@PippaCrerar @guardian @Independent @WomensBudgetGrp @RefugeCharity @sisofrida @DisRightsUK @Keir_Starmer