Neil Carpenter

Benefits on Trial exposes DWP injustice to people with a learning disability. Poverty and pressure on their mental health that only independent tribunals set right. Buy print version (cost price) or Kindle (77p): amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/… From the author of Austerity's Victims.

@ContorSien1527 @Dr_Bekka_UK Thanks yet again.

@Dr_Bekka_UK Worth checking out @NeilCarpenter14 His books are incredible accounts of how bad actually DWP are.

A week after her baby died, the DWP stopped her Universal Credit and sanctioned her for 4 months. This is what 'support' looks like under their system.

@ContorSien1527 @LuxMeaMundiAM @wendywt777 @cassietaylor221 @WayneWm67 @SophieP25397 Thanks very much.

@LuxMeaMundiAM @wendywt777 @cassietaylor221 @WayneWm67 @SophieP25397 @NeilCarpenter14 has written 2 very affordable books about how damaging it is for those claiming disability benefits . Here’s one amzn.eu/d/eEeFFHd

#Farage just declared, "I will introduce some serious cuts to welfare" across Britain. Isn't it odd that the people who object to #Starmer's proposed welfare cuts, and I was one of them, cheer welfare cuts because #Farage has announced it?

When Neil Carpenter became a volunteer advocate for people with a learning disability, the thing that shocked him most was their poverty. Anyone who thinks benefits are generous or easy to access should read his book. #WelfareReformBill #TakingThePIP

@BernaMeaden Thanks, Bernadette.

‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/…

@PaulRidley5 @Longhouseman @OJS50 @ElissaNoves @MarieParrish @ShelleyAshton2 @JD_Quotes2017 @ONealDonaldM @AswasJules Thanks, Paul - just signed.

#SignAndShare 📲 #Mayday #socialcare #welfarenotwarfare #disabilityrebellion #DailyDisabilityHate Thank u @NeilCarpenter14 @Longhouseman @OJS50 @ElissaNoves @MarieParrish @ShelleyAshton2 @JD_Quotes2017 @ONealDonaldM @AswasJules petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7128…

‘Benefits on Trial’ explores the strain created by the DWP on 6 people with a learning disability. Not just finances but also mental health. One suffers panic attacks. Another’s mother says, ‘There were times when I was so low that I started to wish that Jon and I weren’t here’.

‘Benefits on Trial’. 6 people with a learning disability battle with the DWP whose system, with built-in hurdles, is loaded against them. Rejected for PIP. Pushed deeper into relative poverty. Left below 30% of UK median household income.

Despite a new government in 2024, the flaws in the DWP remain. Change needed urgently: see ‘Benefits on Trial’ for evidence of how people with a learning disability are treated.

@Mrsmariebaker Thanks again, Marie.

@NeilCarpenter14 Excellent book. Worth every penny

‘Benefits on Trial’ does not aim to make a profit on sales but rather to show to as many people as possible how unfairly people with a learning disability are treated by the DWP. The print version is therefore for sale at cost price, £2.83, and the e-book version at only 77p.

@MERVatLLARC Thanks again, Mervyn.

Highly Recommended. It's a hard read in terms of the experiences of people, but its an absolute necessity.

‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/…

"'British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach apparently designed to ... enforcing blind compliance over a genuine concern to improve the well-being of those at the lowest levels of British society.'"

@ContorSien1527 @Shrink_at_Large @johnpringdns Thanks yet again - really helpful.

@Shrink_at_Large @johnpringdns There’s also two outstanding books by @NeilCarpenter14

TW: DWP I am still, frankly, speechless at the Lords’ Select Committee’s claim that the WCA needs to be toughened up. For the real picture, folk need to read @johnpringdns brill book The Department. It’s bursting with evidence and reflects what I hear about each and every day.