Here's a ready made letter to send to your MP.

Passerby
Passerby Posts: 148 Empowering
edited March 26 in Current affairs

Re: Urgent Concerns About Benefit Cuts

Dear MP,

I am writing to express my deep concern about the current Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation titled “Modernising Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper”, which proposes significant changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Universal Credit (UC), and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).
While these changes will have profound and life-altering consequences for disabled people, the DWP has refused to consult on the most critical proposals, including:
Abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)
Freezing the UC health element (LCWRA) until 2029/30
Introducing a new requirement to score at least 4 points in a single descriptor to receive the daily living component of PIP
Merging PIP and UC assessments into a single system
Restarting WCA reassessments ahead of its abolition
These are major reforms with serious consequences for people with physical conditions, mental health challenges, neurodivergent profiles and fluctuating conditions — yet the public is being denied the opportunity to comment on them.

Additionally, the DWP has withheld vital data on how many current claimants will be affected by these proposals. This includes:
The number of people who will lose their PIP entitlement under the new rules
Which health conditions are most at risk
The projected financial and wellbeing impact on those affected
This lack of transparency and accountability undermines the consultation process and potentially makes it unlawful, following the High Court’s ruling in January 2024 on similar grounds regarding the WCA.
I am asking you to take urgent action by:
Raising this matter in Parliament or the Lords, and asking the DWP to:
Publish the missing impact data
Extend and reopen the consultation to include all major proposals
Calling for a genuine consultation process, co-designed with disabled people and user-led organisations
Supporting or initiating parliamentary questions to hold the DWP accountable for the omission of key issues from the consultation
Opposing any legislation based on this consultation until it has been subject to full public scrutiny

This Green Paper risks causing serious harm to thousands of disabled people — not just through its policy proposals, but through the way it is being conducted. A consultation that does not allow people to respond to the most important questions is not just flawed — it is undemocratic.

Please stand up for fairness, transparency, and the rights of disabled people by challenging this process and demanding a lawful, open, and inclusive approach.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I would be grateful for a response outlining your position and any steps you plan to take.

Yours sincerely,
**************Copy and paste the above letter and email it to your local MP and Councillors. We must all stand together and fight these cruel and immoral disability benefit cuts********************

Comments

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,474 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Thanks for sharing @Passerby don't forget we also have a ready to go letter to email here for everyone. 😊