For future reference, this is what a Universal Credit review looks like 👇

No mention here of the upcoming cut to Universal Credit, which will cost 700,000+ disabled people an average of £3,000 a year.

From April, the health element of UC will be cut by nearly 50% for new claimants. Set out by @victoria-anns.bsky.social here: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

The Equality Act should protect disabled people at work

But @citizensadvice.bsky.social supported 5,393 people with health-related job discrimination in 2025 - roughly one every 1.5 hours

Mine and @victoria-anns.bsky.social's new report digs into the barriers our disabled clients face at work /1

Our response to the Keep Britain Working report This week, the Keep Britain Working Review published their final report. This review has sparked an important discussion about how…

There’s a risk that the Keep Britain Working plan will see good employers continuing to perform well and receiving more recognition for this. And that little will be done to change the behaviour of employers who are failing to support disabled workers.

wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/our-response...

New blog from me on the need to unfreeze LHA at the Budget

Govt has suggested in the past that DHP can mitigate impact of freezing LHA - but we find it's not remotely set up to do this

📰New @citizensadvice.bsky.social briefing ahead of the #Autumnbudget: The Government if failing private renters by freezing #LocalHousingAllowance #LHA.

More from @citizensadvice.bsky.social on Local Housing Allowance today...

Here's our pre-budget briefing by the brilliant @DrSarahHadfield.bsky.social

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Text reads, 'More than 10% of private renters are in a negative budget'.

As the #AutumnBudget approaches, we're calling on the Chancellor to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to support people on low incomes as private rents continue to soar.

Read more in our blog ⤵️
https://t.co/xTGMQRoFsk https://t.co/ijj5LHQyVC

The government must cancel plans to cut disability benefits for young people This blog has been co-written by Maddy Rose, Senior Policy Researcher, and Victoria Anns, Policy Researcher.

📢Young disabled people could face benefit cuts of more than £420 a month if government plans go ahead.

Young people deserve real support - not cuts that could push them into poverty.

New blog from me & @victoria-anns.bsky.social: medium.com/p/62015a6f0b12

Image shows an illustration of a yellow house. Text reads, 'The Renters' Rights Act is here. What does it mean for you?'

📢 Last night, the Renters Rights Act finally became law.

We’ve been campaigning for this for years. Read more about the bill and what it means for you ⤵️
https://wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/the-renters-rights-act-is-here-but-the-work-is-just-beginning-1308fb226853

No more waiting on the 5 week wait This autumn, the government has the chance to take action on one of Universal Credit’s longest-standing problems: “the 5 week wait”.

Read more about why and how the budget needs to finally call time on the 5 week wait in our new blog⏱️ 👇

Through our frontline services, we see the 5 week wait lead to hardship all the time.

For Alara*, UC deductions made it difficult to provide for her daughter + were a barrier to work.

Like Alara*, 69% of those we helped w/ deductions caused by the 5WW this year also needed a foodbank referral.

The 5 week wait is a fundamental problem w/ UC, catching many between a rock + a hard place:

• Either struggling to afford essentials waiting for the 1st payment

• Or taking out a DWP loan to make ends meet, leaving households w/ even less UC income as the loan's repaid through monthly deductions

Great to see coverage of the 5 week wait in @the-independent.com, highlighting new Citizens Advice analysis of the huge scale of this issue

⚠️800,000 households repaying loans to DWP only needed because of 5 week wait for 1st UC payment

⚠️0.5M+ children growing up in households repaying these loans

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November budget Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year

Very encouraging to read that the Government is preparing to lift the two-child limit as part of its child poverty strategy, but it is disheartening that options short of scrapping it entirely are still being considered. Thread on why this would be the wrong choice for an ambitious strategy:

Chart from https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/benefit-cuts-dont-have-widespread-support/ showing that the majority of people do not support planned or expected social security cuts in the UK

📢 Benefit cuts don’t have widespread support

Important and thoughtful new report from @beccastacey.bsky.social on how the benefits system could be better at making work pay for disabled people

+ great to see this coverage in @bigissue.com from @cjayanetti.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Government’s claim that Universal Credit Bill will incentivise people to work is ‘wishful thinking’

@citizensadvice.bsky.social

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Cuts to disability benefits weren’t totally averted!

🚨New report out today explaining why the Universal Credit Bill will harm disabled people and exploring who will be impacted by the cuts.

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

Policy Research Assistant:Blended between office and home (England and Wales)

🚨 We're hiring a Policy Research Assistant in the Families, Welfare and Work team at Citizens Advice🚨

Come and help us make the benefits system fairer (and work with lots of lovely people)!

Deadline to apply is 21st August: www.jobtrain.co.uk/citizensadvi...

📢New briefing with @drsarahhadfield.bsky.social published today - looking at how UC’s rigid monthly model is often at odds with recipients’ working lives, and how + why the UC review could be a chance to fix this ⬇️

UK launches review into state pension age Move announced as government also appoints commission to look at boosting retirement savings

Raising state pension age is a surefire way of increasing spend on disability benefits
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The narrative around Universal Credit has long centred around work incentives.

This new briefing examines how effective UC is at encouraging employment – and how that focus may have overshadowed the deeper complexities of getting into work. 🧵

🔗 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

🚨 New report alert 🚨

We’ve launched our first local deep dive research into health inequalities - starting in Chapeltown, Leeds.

What does geography have to do with health & work? Quite a lot, it turns out. 🧵

The government's concessions on disability benefits cuts are a good start but do nothing to help those who will need disability benefits in the future. Anyone can become disabled at any time and future claimants are no less deserving of support than existing claimants

Changes to UCPIP bill are result of campaigners & disabled people speaking out about the profound harm the govt was about to inflict.

However, the bill remains illogical & inherently unfair.

The govt should pause & come back with meaningful reform if serious about “fixing the foundations”.

Anita’s story How cuts to disability benefits could impact millions

How will the proposed disability benefit cuts impact disabled people? Today we’re sharing the story of one of the people we’ve helped: Anita*.

The cuts could mean she loses over £8k per year (43% of her income)❗

New blog out now: medium.com/p/1ab8959922a1

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - On Tuesday 1st July, MPs will be asked to vote on the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade. This briefing from ten organisations including Scope, Citizens Advi...

Heartened to see these charities working together to oppose the UC and PIP bill - www.ucpipbill.co.uk

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - On Tuesday 1st July, MPs will be asked to vote on the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade. This briefing from ten organisations including Scope, Citizens Advi...

UC & PIP bill proposes the biggest cuts to disability benefits since OBR was created. It would:
✂️cut benefits for 3.2m disabled ppl
📈Push 300,000-400,000 into poverty, including 50,000 children
📈 Drive 440,000 into severe hardship

New joint briefing: www.ucpipbill.co.uk

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The new welfare bill could cut billions from health & disability benefits, putting hundreds of thousands of disabled people at risk of poverty.

Join @citizensadvice.bsky.social on 26 June to hear from a panel of experts and explore our data ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-a... #CADataInsights