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Green Paper Discussion – Have you responded yet?
The consultation deadline is currently the 30th June 2025. Have you responded yet? If so, have you any tips for those who are looking to? This is our newest discussion about Labour's Green Paper on benefits reforms. If you're looking for links to the consultation and information about consultation events, you can find that…
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Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)
Scope's response to the Spring Statement: "The Chancellor has confirmed devastating plans to further cut disability benefits. As a result, lowering the living standards of disabled". Link to documents here - Spring Statement 2025 - GOV.UK
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Get your MP to act against cuts
Hi everyone 🙂 It's Tori from Scope's campaigns team here. I think it's fair to say that the last few weeks have been pretty bleak. We saw widespread news coverage last weekend about potential Government proposals to cut disability benefits. I know this is worrying for many of you. MPs from all parties need to understand…
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DWP Press Release - Universal Credit change brings £420 boost to over a million households
Some positive news released yesterday… Details from the Government website below: More than one million households struggling with debt will get to keep an average £420 more of their benefits each year, under a change to Universal Credit coming into force today [30 April 2025]. Around 1.2 million of the poorest households…
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The Cost of Cuts
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed deeper into poverty. Life costs a lot more when you’re disabled. Needing more financial support is not a choice. Disabled…
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Scopes reaction to the green paper.
Today, the Government announced plans for the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record. These plans will be catastrophic for disabled people. Leaving us unable to afford the essentials, and to cover the extra costs of disability. Nearly half of families living in poverty already include someone who is disabled. We…
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The Green Paper Discussion (the document link is here too!)
James Taylor, Executive Director of Strategy at disability equality charity Scope, said: “The biggest cuts to disability benefits on record should shame the government to its core. They are choosing to penalise some of the poorest people in our society. Almost half of families in poverty include someone who is disabled.…
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Upcoming changes to benefits
There has been a lot of speculation over the last few months about potential changes to the benefits system and earlier this week ITV released an article summarising what is expected to be announced by the Government: More than £6bn of welfare savings will come from changes to disability benefits. The aim is to save £6bn a…
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How a change in law is passed. (White paper to law timeline)
Regarding the process, the green paper will be consulted for 12 weeks. Then it'll go to the white paper, which is usually the statement of policy and proposals, (sometimes in draft form,) which will then get more feedback from outside sources and debated in parliament. So again, not quick! After that will be the "First…
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Official thread: ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper released Tuesday 26th November
thought I’d get this thread started early as I’ll imagine the papers will be publishing significant leaks later tonight From the sounds of things upcoming welfare reforms (such as wca and pip) won’t be covered in this white paper (at least in major detail) - past quotes from the gov suggest welfare reform reveal launch…
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People speaking out
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Fight Back
Everyone this is the moment we really need to fight back email your mps stating the information is incorrect or whatever you want to email just state we want these proposals scrapped she did that speech to calm the mps no we have to remind them and shoe them we will vote them out this is a fight for our future fight back
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Thinking of
Nightcity vikki66 summerlove poppy kimi hoping everyone well
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Pip
Any truth in this hope true cause I am sick fed up off it all
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Rachel Reeves - Live Treasury Questions Tuesday 11.30-12.30
She's back!
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Are Tories set to vote against Green Paper cuts? "These plans are cruel, careless and clumsy.
This could be interesting in the hope the Tories vote it down? All we can do is pray this all gets binned. From our friends at B&W. PUBLISHED: 19 MAY 2025 Most commentators have assumed that the Conservatives would always vote in favour of anything that resembled a benefits cut. But there now seems to be a possibility that…
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Tories ready to oppose the cuts?
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/are-tories-set-to-vote-against-green-paper-cuts
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Need some help responding to letter from my MP
Hi, I need to draft a response to the letter below from my Labour MP, and need some help with it, please. My MP writes sentence like 'There will always be some people who cannot work, and I assure you that they will be protected' Well I dont think thats true is it? If anyone reads any of the paragraphs below which need to…
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Will Addendance Allowance be affected by recent proprosed changes to disability benefits?
Will Addendance Allowance be affected by recent proprosed changes to disability benefits?
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Lcwara
i’m currentlylcwara like to know if I will still get it in the new spring budget as I’m very confused about it
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Question
If starmer tool us back into EU wouldn't our rights as disabled be stronger ?
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Welfare cuts
Has anyone noticed that Stsrmer and the Cabinet keep on referring to 'working people' or 'hard working people' in statements and in the news. Starmerveven refers to 'working people' in his EU statement. I think this is part of this govt's narrative, which suggests that you are only of value if you can work and undeserving…
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Government needs Reform's post?
Has @Government_needs_reform post about the percentages of 4 points awarded per descriptor been deleted? I can't find it and the information was useful. Thank you.
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The two PIP activities that provide most PIP 4-point scores
Thought this is worth seeing and sharing. Some interesting facts on the Two of personal independence payment (PIP) daily living activities are responsible for the majority of 4 point or higher scores, according to figures released by the DWP. If Labour’s proposals to limit the PIP daily living component to claimants who…
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Saw article in newspaper today want to highlight
Looking through newspapers today, tiny article of how 100 Labour mps are now dought the pip changes and if much more do keir could be out why is this not front page and been scream about, scope please😍👀!!!!
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Embarrassing
Starmer wanted to do a deal with Albania to send asylum seekers there Albania said no Also report come out about fraud and pip stating thier is no fraud and dpac have written to echr to complain about labour pip cuts asking them to investigate
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Grateful
I'm so Grateful for scope and everyone on here we have done amazing supporting each other doing everything we can to stop these vile cuts thankyou everyone I would be a wreck and so low if I didn't have this forum and all of you guys ❤️
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Disability news service
I thought I do this thread to put on what's going on , so we can be kept upto date. Another out come that ofcom aren't doing anything against the vile woman Isabel oakshot on her views of young disabled people on talk. Also that bloke who did that program on benefits on channel 4. There not doing anything either
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Worried
I haven'treceived migration notice
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Definitions - impairment v disability
2013 DWP Internal Review of the Work Capability Assessment p78 It is helpful to clarify two important terms used throughout the report. Impairment is a significant, demonstrable, deviation or loss of body structure or function. The key feature is that impairment can be identified through objective evidence: ‘detectable ...…
