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Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise? Mikey Erhardt at Disability Rights UK writes about why the Stephen Timms review of PIP cannot be used as a smokescreen for cuts.

Mikey Erhardt, policy lead at @disrightsuk.bsky.social, wrote for @bigissue.com about why the Stephen Timms review of the personal independence payment (PIP) must be used to ensure genuine and positive change for disabled people.

www.bigissue.com/opinion/timm...

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Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise? Mikey Erhardt at Disability Rights UK writes about why the Stephen Timms review of PIP cannot be used as a smokescreen for cuts.

"Our good faith must not be held against us. Our involvement in the process will not automatically lead to our endorsement and support for any specific policy. Only then will this review be worth more than the paper it is written on."

DR UK's Mikey in @bigissue.com👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/timm...

Benefits claimants with MS and Parkinson's face universal credit cut Keir Starmer can still ‘avoid a crisis’ by rethinking a key benefit reform, say rebel Labour MPs

🚨People with MS and Parkinson's face Universal Credit Cut, which will cause a 'crisis'

DR UK's Mikey Erhardt: "We’re worried that if symptoms are not constant, you could be pushed into the lower group and getting less money than you need"

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Read @getyrselfactive.bsky.social's report into the personal and sector-wide impact of the UC Bill on Disabled people's physical activity.

Physical activity is a right, not a luxury, and with our access stripped back, it paves the way for the deterioration of other rights too.

Read and share!

Impact of Universal Credit Bill on Disabled People's Physical Activity - Get Yourself Active GYA's new report into the health impacts of the Government's Universal Credit Bill on Disabled people, our access to physical activity and public services.

🚨NEW REPORT🚨
The Impact of Universal Credit Bill on Disabled People's Access to Physical Activity

77% of people we polled use their LCWRA benefits to pay for physical activity - benefit cuts will have devastating public health impacts.

Full report👇 getyourselfactive.org/resource/uc-...

Being LGBTQ+ and Disabled: Where Identities Meet

🏳️‍🌈⚧️Being LGBTQ+ and Disabled: Where Identities Meet

📝New blog post! Celestine, one of DR UK's Trustees, writes about the intersection of LGBTQ+ and Disabled people - our shared experience of being other'd, and our creative ways we resist this💥

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/being-l...

MISSING 375,000 accessible and adaptable homes that could have been built since July 2022. Image of a wheelchair user entering a home. Logo of Housing made for everyone (HOME) in the bottom left corner.

The numbers are in – and they’re worrying. Since July 2022, of 487,000 new homes built, we estimate over 375,000 feature inadequate minimum accessibility standards.

As members of the HoME coalition, we are calling for policy change to ensure every new home is accessible.

DR UK’s CEO Message To the House Of Lords - Oppose The Universal

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

DR UK’s CEO Message To The House Of Lords - Oppose The Universal Credit Bill Cuts

Today, the Government's UC Bill will be debated by the House of Lords - we have written to House of Lords members urging them to reject the cuts 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk%E...

Are Supermarkets Doing Enough for Disabled People? Baywatch Campaign

1 in 5 people in the UK are Disabled, yet accessible bays are often blocked or ignored.

We’re joining Disabled Motoring UK's Baywatch campaign to demand better access for all.
Let’s make accessible parking a priority, not an afterthought!

Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/are-sup...

We will never stop in the struggle for Disabled rights and justice 💪

In the aftermath of the cuts passing, we are sending solidarity to all Disabled people who feel worried about the future.

As a Disabled-led organisation, many of us feel the same - but these concessions showed the power of our movement, and that our strength to fight is growing!

We are devastated to hear the Government's Universal Credit Bill has gone through. This will halve the UC health element for thousands of Disabled people, taking away £3,000 a year when they already cannot afford essentials.

Disabled lives are more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

Government's Universal Credit Bill Passes: DR UK Response

Disabled people in poverty should not be footing the bill of successive Governments' failure to tax big corporations.

The decision to target Disabled people already marginalised by state policies is a political choice, not an imperative.

Our response👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Government's Universal Credit Bill has passed, rushing it through in one day, without a committee stage where Disabled people's voices could have been heard.

It's clear: the government views Disabled lives as nothing more than a cost-cutting exercise

Nadia Whittome saying what we all feel when 'PIP fraud rates' are brought up...🤣 #BinUCBill @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social

Four Disabled protestors outside Parliament. They have placards that read: Stop all benefits cuts and sanctions, Winvisible Charities don't collaborate with cuts, Winvisible Benefit cuts are killing us! Remembered: Elaine Morrall Single Mum of 4 killed by UC sanction, November 2017 Winvisible

We are right outside Parliament, alongside WinVisible and other Disabled campaigners, having our voices heard as the debate goes on in the chamber.

Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations

It's time to #BinUCBill

'This Government impoverishes the sick and the elderly to satisfy spreadsheets... Disability organisations from DPAC to Disability Rights UK are united in their opposition to Clause 2'

🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber

Thank you to @zarahsultana.bsky.social for saying the names of Errol Graham, Jodey Whiting and Stephen Smith, who died at the hands of DWP sanctions.

'Their deaths were not a tragic exception, but a political consequence. The human cost of decisions made in Parliament.'

#BinUCBill

Disability Pride Month: Resistance in Action

For as long as society disables us, being Disabled is political and so #DisabilityPrideMonth must remain so too.

Whilst the UK remains a hostile place for Disabled people, one thing is for certain: our movement is growing. Our Disability Pride Month piece:
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's 'shameful' benefits bill The UN's letter comes as the government's welfare bill reaches its third reading in parliament and will be subject to another vote.

🚨UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's benefits bill:: 'It should shame the government'

A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill

www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Every Disabled organisation is against this bill. Slashing the Universal Credit health element in half, pushing more Disabled people is unconscionable - especially when the Government could easily tax the rich.

❌MPs must vote against the bill today!

#BinUCBill

UN criticises Starmer's welfare reforms and warns measures will 'increase poverty rates' Last week, the government won a vote on its benefits bill by 75 votes, but only after offering last-minute concessions to Labour rebels.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

UN criticises Starmer's benefit cuts, warning that measures will 'increase poverty rates'

As MPs go to vote for the final time later today, the bill is receiving international criticism from the United Nations

news.sky.com/story/un-cri...

Apply for a disabled person's bus pass Contact your local council to find out who issues disabled bus passes in your area as part of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme

🚌We are frequently contacted about bus passes, so we thought it might be helpful to post out the link for how to apply - this page is about Disabled person's bus passes in England, but has links on the page to Scotland, Wales and NI too!

www.gov.uk/apply-for-di...

The right to an education, health and care plan must be retained | Letters Letter: Jane Asher, Carrie Grant, Chris Packham, Anna Bird, Fazilet Hadi, Sally Phillips, Jon Sparkes and 100 others call on the government not to remove the right to an EHCP from children attending m...

The Government should know better than to think they can attack Disabled people's rights and get away with it.

Labour must should commit to keeping EHCPs to protect Disabled children's educational rights.

✒️We signed this letter with over 100 campaigners
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We forced them to concede and demonstrated how flimsy their proposals were but we must keep the pressure on! They cannot get away with these plans to cut the health element of UC, leaving thousands £200 worse off each month.

#BinUCBill

#BinUCBill Template Letter to MP's DO NOT EDIT THIS DOCUMENT DIRECTLY! How to use this document: Copy and paste the text below into a new document. Then input your info into the below fields. You can send the entire email, or you can ...

📅Tomorrow is the final vote of the Government's disastrous Universal Credit Bill

Crips Against Cuts have created this MP email template - let's flood their inboxes and do everything in our power to make this vote fail tomorrow! #BinUCBill

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Help us fight Blue Badge abuse this July - August Baywatch My Blue Badge Matters Disabled Motoring UK logo background image of a car park with Disabled parking bays

Baywatch Supported By Phab, Indepdendent living, MotaClarity, Euan's Guide, Accessible Vehicle Club, Transport for all, Disability Rights UK, Allied Mobility, Hidden disabilities, Surewise, RAC and the outdoor guide

We're proud to be supporting Disabled Motoring UK's campaign this July and August, upholding the rights of Blue Badge holders.

Blue Badges and Disabled bays aren’t a luxury, they’re essential to help Disabled people live an independent life.

Find out more 👇
www.disabledmotoring.org/baywatch/abo...

We keep hearing 'get Disabled people into work' but what about when the Access to Work system meant to support us into employment fail us?

The Disabled-led Access to Work Collective are campaigning for AtW reform

📩Use their templates to write to your MP about this! drive.google.com/drive/folder...