Green Paper Discussion (from 24th March, 2025)

Yes UK courts have to take into account any ECHR rulings. We're signed up to that. But ECHR judgements can't directly overturn UK law, they can only challenge law(s) on human rights grounds. The ultimate arbiter of UK law is UK judges who take into account any ECHR rulings as part of their judgements.

We're really getting into the weeds on this one. To say this is complicated would be a massive understatement. 😂

What should allow you to rest easier is knowing there are many good people who will be using every tool available to them to fight on our behalf.

🙏 thank you

thank you and fingers crossed 🤞

who will financially gain from this package, with an average gain of £420 per year compared to inflation

can someone explain who could be better off by £420 a year? I just can’t work it out or who are thinking about?

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

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********************

you fail to mention the creation of the unemployment insurance, which will substitute ESA CB. Which means that those receiving it will lose £5000 a year plus lose their NI contributions towards a future pension

im confused as how did the DWP came up with those figures!!!

If you lose your PIP daily living allowance, as it stands in hats nearly £73 a week. You’ll also lose your health element in UC which is about £95 a week I think.

That’s like losing £9000 a year!!!

That’s not £1700. ****

especially on a subject that’s very badly written in the Green Paper, it is confusing as well as it hides the future implications of such change.

A change that MPs dont understand unless you point it out to them.

A change that on paper looks good but if you look deeper it’s very bad.

A change that’s misleading and can be easily challenged in court