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– You see, if so many were indeed housebound, you’d expect to see them everywhere!

Equality and respect should be the heartbeat of society. But instead, politicians use Disabled people as scapegoats and PIP as a political football. It's time for a reset. Read our response to the Timms interim report: buff.ly/Wdpmzo7 #OpportunitySecurityRespect

A third broadcaster has been unable to explain why presenters are failing to challenge politicians and commentators who repeat the false claim that spending on social security needs to be cut because it is out of control. #Channel5 #ITN #JeremyVine disabilitynewsservice.com/itn-fails-to-e…

While the rightwing blame young 'snowflakes' for the rise in PIP claimants, the evidence shows it is: - cuts to public services - long waits for NHS treatment - decline in healthy life expectancy - soaring living costs All the things disability campaigners have said for years!

Indrukwekkend verhaal van Etty die ziek werd toen ze 9 was en nu 72 is. Hoe het jarenlang een gevecht is geweest om serieus genomen te worden. nmcb.eu/stories/ettys-…

🚨 BREAKING: The Timms Review is right to find that the process of claiming PIP can be ‘dehumanising’ and ‘soul destroying’. Sadly, this reflects the experiences of disabled people coming to food banks in our community every day. Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger, and 75% of people coming to food banks are disabled. PIP should be supporting disabled people to overcome the additional barriers they face, but right now, it’s creating more. People face unnecessary bureaucracy, delays, and incorrect decisions. Time and energy that could be spent on progressing life goals, including in employment, is instead spent fighting the system. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We have published six proposals that would make PIP more efficient and remove fear from the assessment process. A system that gets decisions right first time is also a more compassionate system that will protect disabled people from hardship and give them the security to get on with their lives.

If they want to scrap PIP we could always go back to DLA and basing it on the medical opinions of the doctors who actually treat the claimant and not some DWP decision maker with an NVQ L3 in health & social care and 3 weeks job training

I wonder if anyone has told you the full facts about PIP? First and foremost it is not a benefit connected with work in any way. They don't even ask about employment. The application form is 45 pages long. It is divided into 9 sections dealing with different aspects of the applicants life. Additional evidence is normally required in the form of supporting letters from doctors and social workers. It's not enough to just fill in the form, you have to PROVE your case legally. The vast majority of applicants are turned down in the first instance. This forces them to go to Appeal. Thewse Appeals are a legal procedure run by the Courts and Tribunals Service. These people may not have knowledge of your disability so you have to turn up and argue your case. The rules are so mplicated that there are specialist websites aimed at helping people with the extremely detailed appication. Essentially if you don't phrase your application in the right way you don't get a penny. It is in fact so complicated that your ordinary disabled person has no chance of getting it without specialist help. Here follows a couple of such sites for your perusal. Please note the sheer complexity of the rules and regulations. You have to really know your stuff to get this benefit. benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-indep… pipps.co.uk

‘Delighted that my amendment to the Health Bill was debated in the Bill ‘Committee highlighting the poor and patchy implementation of NG206 guidance on #ME five years on from adoption We must see this hard earned achievement implemented properly’ TessaMunt MP Amendment withdrawn

ME “is as serious as AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis. You feel as ill as those people do, but neglected a lot by friends and family because they don’t realise how sick you really are.” ME patient Barbara Kell, BBC Look North 2012 #MECFS

“Disabled people are not just experiencing poverty – they are being systematically prevented from maintaining their health, and any cuts to financial support will be a catastrophe of health.” Dan White policy lead at @DisRightsUK and the DPCG.

Hilda Bastian: "Values and Conflicts at Journals" (re: disputed Cochrane review on exercise for ME/CFS, etc.) absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/06/24/val… s4me.info/threads/2025-t… Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #MEcfs #PwME

Today is my birthday... Please have a read. 📖💙🙏 Nederland: doneeramsterdamumc.nl/mecvs International: US: omf.ngo Germany: mecfs-research.org Austria: weandmecfs.org UK: donate.justgiving.com/charity/merge/… #pwme #myalgicE #millionsmissing #severeME

“We don’t know how to cure many conditions, but that doesn’t mean that this condition [ME/CFS] doesn’t exist… we don’t know how to treat probably 90% of neurological conditions.” Dr Tarek Gaber, interview at the #MECFS Clinic in Wigan (2024).

My post about the @WIRED story by @AlanLevinovitz clocked in at 3,000+ words--not quite half the length of the story itself. Sorry!!--I tried to keep it shorter, but there was just so much to say. And more likely to come. virology.ws/2026/06/09/tri…

#PIPReview The call for evidence for Timms PIP Review ends on Thursday 28th May at 11.59 pm You still have time to send a submission for the call for evidence

We have been told categorically for years that function FND is exclusively a brain "software"/"brain network" problem. Those suggesting other biomedical pathways were charged as "dualistic." Now FND experts themselves kibosh the "software"-only theory: virology.ws/2026/05/20/tri…

A recent paper made a categorical assertion about the cause of functional neurological symptoms. This definitive statement is unwarranted, given the state of the evidence. I have written to the journal asking for the sentence to be corrected: virology.ws/2026/05/25/tri…

“The injustice of it, I couldn’t believe it” Former Team GB rower @oonagh_cousins talking about the #MECFS “scandal” where patients were told they were deconditioned & needed Graded Exercise & CBT It is the “opposite of what they needed” & that legacy still runs “super deep”