Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust)

Charities warn Labour’s PIP review must ‘earn the trust’ of disabled people Exclusive: A group of over 50 charities and disabled person’s organisations warn that the review is ‘causing concern’

Many disabled people have understandably lost trust in DWP after years of dehumanising decision-making. It's time we work together.

➡️Our letter with @disrightsuk.bsky.social @mind.org.uk @turn2us.org.uk @mencap.org.uk @trusselluk.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Grateful to work with @trustforlondon.bsky.social on #FixTheFiveBasics

In a room full of campaigners for better conditions in temporary accommodation, the voice that matters most is Miracle's: TA resident & disability rights advocate.

Our campaigns will always platform the stories, expertise and demands of those on the receiving end of harmful systems.

Email your council — Fix the Five Basics Call on your council to Fix the Five Basics.Right now, families across London are living in temporary accommodation without the basics they need to survive.Parents are trying to feed their children using only a kettle. Young people are falling behind at school because they can't get online. Families…

More than 4,000 families in Westminster are stuck in “temporary” accommodation, trying to get through daily life without the basics most of us rely on.

Email the Westminster Cabinet Member for Housing today: https://bit.ly/45RCbSK #FixtheFiveBasics

Families across London are living in Temporary Accommodation without basics like cooking facilities, laundry access, or phone number for support with repairs and case updates.

This isn’t inevitable.

📧 Email your Cabinet Member and call on them to #FixTheFiveBasics.
https://bit.ly/45RCbSK

The government says settling in the UK should be ‘earned.’ Translation: if you’ve ever accessed support, you may wait 5-10 years longer.

Z2K’s latest briefing sets out why this approach is flawed, unfair, and economically short-sighted: z2k.org/wp-content/u...

We exist to support people who fall through the social safety net. 💜Here are just a few highlights of what we achieved in 2025.

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The Renters’ Rights Act is finally a thing – on paper. But unless renters know their rights and councils properly enforce them, it will mean little in practice.

We’ve told the London Assembly Housing Committee what it’ll take to make the Act work: z2k.org/wp-content/u...

"Social security is security for everyone."

Thank you to @sianberry.bsky.social for platforming Maryam's story and calling on this Government to scrap the two-child limit's evil twin: the benefit cap.

Statement on Bill to end the two-child limit 65 organisations have come together to commend the government for making the choice to scrap the two-child limit and ask all MPs to stand with children and support this Bill.

Today, Parliament begins debating the Bill to end the two-child limit – a policy that helped drive child poverty to a record high.

We’re proud to stand with 65 other organisations calling on MPs to support it.

Read our joint statement here: cpag.org.uk/news/stateme...

We've told the Milburn Review that punitive benefits rules don’t ‘incentivise’ young people – they punish disabled people and lock them out of work.

Read our response in full: https://z2k.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Z2K-submission-Milburn-Review-call-for-evidence-Jan-26.pdf

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Disabled people should not be the price of short-term savings.

If the Government is serious about reform, it should fix what’s broken. Practical ways to improve PIP assessments are possible, so decisions are right the first time.

We thank the many MPs working with us behind the scenes, for standing firm against these cruel cuts.

Sacrificing disabled people to balance the books is not a mandate anyone has given this government.
With elections coming in May, and support for disabled people under universal credit due to be cut by £200/month from April, that warning matters.

Fresh benefits rebellion brews as PIP whistleblowers expose ‘superficial’ quotas One MP said it would be the 'straw that breaks the back of the Starmer leadership'

🔴We say NO to cutting disability benefits: the public, disabled people, and many reasonable MPs across the UK made it clear last summer.
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MPs criticise behaviour of senior DWP officials over carer’s allowance scandal Top DWP civil servant accused of giving out ‘a lot of blancmange’ over department’s response during hearing

Carers were landed with debts they never owed because the DWP ran a system of ✨blancmange✨: wobbly rules and no grip on the harm caused.

Now it wants banks to hand over data. The DWP needs to build trust, not be handed unchecked power.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

At Z2K, our expert advice and representation service supports people to navigate complex systems and access vital income.

Read about how we helped Emmanuel.

Today the government publishes the bill to end the two-child limit. This huge moment in the fight against child poverty should be celebrated.

But keeping the punitive household benefit cap will blunt its impact for hundreds of thousands of children. This cap should also go.

In 2025, we provided vital advice and legal representation for people living in poverty and helped to force major government U-turns through our campaigning.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our work – and here’s to making even more change together in 2026.

Gap between disability benefit reviews will be extended The change to personal independence payment assessments is intended to save almost £2 billion in welfare spending by the end of the decade

Reducing the number of high-stakes PIP reassessments is the right step.

But the government’s pro-assessment rhetoric sends the wrong signal.

Assessments should be the exception, not the starting point.

www.thetimes.com/article/52f3...

Over 100,000 children in London will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation, according to new research.

Our Senior Policy Advisor spoke to LBC News about the human impact of the growing temporary accommodation crisis.

Six disabled people displayed written pieces about their experiences of receiving disability benefits in Parliament.

In a new blog, expert by experience Roxie has written about how it felt to work on this exhibition: https://z2k.org/behind-the-scenes-of-my-piece-whats-wrong-with-her/

Homelessness minister promises to end use of B&Bs as emergency housing Exclusive: Alison McGovern makes target for end of this parliament, but figures show homelessness has jumped

Reducing the use of B&Bs as temporary accommodation is vital.

But the freeze on housing benefit flies in the face of the government’s efforts to tackle this crisis.

We need further action to stop rising rents pushing more people into homelessness.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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💜 Thanks to the incredible generosity of supporters, pledgers, and our champion funder, we have hit our Big Give Christmas campaign target, raising £30,457!

🎄Read our new blog to find out more about the impact of doubling your donations over the past week:
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