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@PollyReturns Let me warn you the whole benefit system is not fit for purpose if you and your other half are both disabled/critically ill. We both have Parkinson’s and I was diagnosed with cancer too. Our joint award each month for UC is £107 per month 😡 they don’t get it

I'm so very scared. Not only is LCWRA & PIP my only income, my only possible income, but my beloved is now having some serious health issues too. And the government want us dead.

#AccessToWork The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found another excuse for not releasing vital information that would show why cuts were made to many disabled people’s Access to Work packages after Labour came to power in July 2024. disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-reveals-la…

@K4rmaRules Thank you

@PconciergeAllen Sounds like claims management pressure to me. If it was real, you'd likely get a written letter rather than an email. If someone is getting these emails without knowingly signing a contract, it’s a red flag.

Is anyone else getting threatening emails off courmacs solicitors about car finance claims?

This splintered approach to changing the benefits system to ward off political pressure is super dangerous. A PIP consultation process that threatens to get rid of WCA. An Access to Work scheme cut in practice but not admitted in words. A large pilot to remove sick notes. 1/2

@Alayna_Og I have this all the time but I have Parkinson’s

@johnpringdns Don’t be like me and have two critical illnesses first Parkinson’s then when I got diagnosed with cancer - guess what, the halved it 😳😡

Self-employed disabled people are waiting nearly two years for the Department for Work and Pensions to even begin working on their Access to Work application if they are seen as a “non-priority” case, new figures have confirmed. #AccessToWork #DWP disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-figures-sh…

@raspberrytalk @barnaclebum6 @Chuffin_ell @Helen_Whately @10DowningStreet @UKLabour @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch @CommonsWorkPen @CarersUK @CarersTrust I’m with you. Myself and my partner both live with Parkinson’s. Because I have a widows pension we get the total of £107 between us per month. Counting down the weeks to being homeless. The @DWPgovuk does not care about the disabled 😡

@Chuffin_ell @Helen_Whately @10DowningStreet @UKLabour @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch @CommonsWorkPen @CarersUK @CarersTrust My wife is my full time carer. She works 24/7/365 and the pittance of CA is deducted IN FULL from our LCWRA. So she effectively works FOR FREE! Disgusting.

Unpaid carers are not “Benefit Street.” We save the UK an estimated £184 billion a year while many survive on just £86.40 a week, often for 90+ hrs of care @Helen_Whately @10DowningStreet @UKLabour @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch @CommonsWorkPen @LizKendallLab @CarersUK @CarersTrust

@valueadde @K4rmaRules @labourlewis We are two people with Parkinson’s and we have a grand total of £107 awarded for us both a month. I have a mortgage, we need help, or we’ll be homeless. @stephenctimms #universalcredit @DisRightsUK

@labourlewis Check this out Clive. People are being asked to survive on £2,500 less a year or £50.00 less a WEEK. Some of the sickest and disabled people. Can you imagine being extremely sick and unable to work -and live on £7565.00 a Year? I’ve left Labour and I’m never coming back.

I know the news Andy Burnham has a route back to Westminster will divide opinion. So, before anything else, I want to speak plainly – to Labour members and voters, to those who have left us, and to anyone on the centre-left, whether you vote Green, Lib Dem, or are simply looking for a politics that hasn't given up on you. Last week's local election results were, for many of us, existential. Not disappointing. Not a setback. Existential. Look across Europe and beyond at what happens to social democratic parties that refuse to step outside the economic orthodoxy of the last forty years – the one that hollowed out our public services, privatised what was ours, drove inequality to indecent levels, and cleared the ground for the authoritarian right to march into. That is the path we are on. Keir Starmer has refused to see it, and the country cannot afford another general election spent finding out the hard way. So let me be direct. The Prime Minister should set out a timeline for an orderly transition. I have said this before. I say it again now because the stakes have changed. Reform is not a protest – it is a project. And it will not be beaten by a Labour Party that mistakes managerial caution for strategy. As regards Andy, I want to set down here that I do not see him as some kind of messiah. Far from it. As someone who has been around frontline politics for more than twenty years, he has made his fair share of mistakes. But for the last ten years he has been a serious, grounded, and effective Mayor of Greater Manchester. The party and the country need their strongest players on the pitch, and he has a great deal to offer at a moment when the national stage has rarely mattered more. I hope the NEC will listen to the overwhelming view of the Cabinet, the PLP, the membership, and the unions, and let Andy stand. And I hope and believe the people of Makerfield will send him back to Parliament. But that is not a given. We know Reform will throw everything at this by-election. We must do the same and then some. Reform have spent a year being told they are inevitable. Makerfield is where we find out whether that is true. Every advance has a limit. This is where we set it. Millions of people, including my constituents in Norwich South, need this government to succeed. They need housing, working public services, secure jobs, water and energy that serves them rather than extracts from them. That work is not finished. But the honest truth is that stopping Reform and rebuilding the country is bigger than any one party. It will take a progressive politics willing to listen, willing to cooperate where the public interest demands it, and willing to drop the tribal habits that got us here. The country is ahead of us on this. It is time we caught up. Makerfield is one of many places where Labour has lost trust. It is an area Andy knows and has lived in for many years. If selected, he will work hard to win that trust back and make the case for a Labour Party worth voting for again. That case has to be made not only to people who once voted Labour, but to everyone who believes the answer to Reform is a serious, democratic, social alternative – not a paler imitation of the politics that created the problem. This by-election is not about one seat. It is a test of whether Labour understands the moment we are in. No single party is going to stop Reform on its own. The progressive majority in this country is real – but it is scattered across Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, nationalists, independents, and millions of people who have stopped voting altogether. Our job is not to demand they all come back to us. It is to earn the right to work with them, on shared ground, for a shared future. To former Labour voters: come and talk to us again. To Green and Lib Dem voters: we are not enemies. To Labour members and MPs: this is the fight. Let's get on with it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Dis_PPL_Protest Absolutely. It’s crippling small businesses run by disabled people. I know, I’m one of them, they’ve halved my access to work award. Up until 2024 I only had #parkinsons the I got a #gallbladdercancer diagnosis and they decided to cut the award. 😡

#AccessToWork The government should halt its cuts and reforms to Access to Work and commission new research to show exactly how important the scheme is to the disabled people who rely on it to stay working, according to a new report. disabilitynewsservice.com/government-mus…

The Labour chair of the Commons committee that is supposed to hold the Department for Work and Pensions to account has refused to criticise ministers who misled parliament about a cut to the Access to Work scheme. #DWP #AccessToWork disabilitynewsservice.com/senior-labour-…

Cancel the disability cuts in the King's Speech, @Keir_Starmer. You must be the most ruthless Prime Minister yet; no one has ever shown such cruelty. You've dragged this country backward, and any harm that comes to disabled children will be on your shoulders.

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@GoDriveSmart why are you tracking people with disabilities when they are not even in the @Motability vehicle? @DisRightsUK @DirectLine who is getting the data then? We should NOT be constantly tracked

@bphillipsonMP Bridget Phillipson we are still waiting for our face to face meeting to discuss our joint #UniversalCredit award of £107 per month. How do we pay our bills and eat? This benefit is “not fit for our purpose” both having Parkinson’s and a recent cancer diagnosis too

@Neccccy 👍🏻

Thumbs up if you agree?

@askesure Already done that. Waiting for a complaints manager to call me

@PconciergeAllen Hi, we are sorry to hear this. Our DM’s are open if you would like to send us more information on the matter and we can assist. Thanks ~ BT

@askesure you are making it impossible to pay for my Vulnerable 98 year old aunt’s home insurance. Disgusting how you deal with people without no access to the internet. Your customer service experience stinks

@LinkedIn as a vulnerable customer I am desperately looking for a phone number for someone to help me with an issue I have on my account 😤