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  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    Spread the word!
    Tell your friends and family about this campaign. Every supporter counts and will make this campaign even more powerful….

    CAMPAIGN FOR DISABILITY JUSTICE 

    Let’s not forget …

     Disabled Voices Matter

    In Solidarity ✊

  • Martinp
    Martinp Online Community Member Posts: 249 Empowering
  • waylander9602
    waylander9602 Online Community Member Posts: 73 Empowering

    All seems to going a bit quiet on the resistance front? Has anyone heard anything about anyone challenging the Gov on the changes. I have been trying to stay away from media as I am finding it to much and really struggling with it all. 😪

  • Natureico
    Natureico Scope Member Posts: 46 Empowering

    This is scandalous by Rachel Reeves. I'm apoplectic with rage at this so called Labour Government. 😠

    Nye Bevin will be turning over in his grave 😲

    Nearly 9 out of 10 set to lose PIP payments after DWP changes

    https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2043297/dwp-PIP-change-standard-rate

  • worried33
    worried33 Online Community Member Posts: 1,036 Championing
    edited April 2025

    None of this is a surprise.

    When Labour were last in power, they were pro child support and anti ill health support, and its looking like it might be the same thing again, now I dont condone child poverty so want to make that clear. But the changes are looking more and more ideological with every passing month. I think whilst Reeve is a bit of a nut case on her own feelings regarding benefits and taxation, this is also a big pet project for Liz Kendall who has been tweeting nonsense about these reforms since "before" the election.

    One thing in particular that wants to make me vomit about claims of "severely disabled" being protected, the most vulnerable being protected, as if they trying to claim people who need adaptations to do basic daily tasks are not severely disabled. Its a constant PR exercise trying to tell the uninformed the public that the only people losing support are people with minor conditions.

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  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing
  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    Correction (as per our previous discussions):


    Under the new proposal, LCWRA will be abolished along with the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).There will be no WCA , therefore no LCWRA. It will be replaced by the Universal Credit Health Element, which will be linked to the stricter PIP daily living criteria (scoring at least 4 points).

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  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    @Passerby

    Totally agree – This Labour government is evil.The impact of these proposals are devastating. It feels like they’re creating real hardship for disabled people and descending hell on earth . Labour may think they’ve silenced our voices, but we can and must keep pushing back.

    Please check out our previous discussions. One direct way to oppose the proposals is by emailing your personal impact stories (see earlier posts for a strategic template to help you write your own) to:Consultation.pathwaystowork@dwp.gov.uk

    (Be sure to do this before the consultation ends.)

    Or else they will try to push these proposals through by claiming that disabled people did not respond.

    We need to show them that disabled voices will not be silenced – and that we have power. Keep going: sign petitions, support campaigns, share your personal stories with DPOs, councillors, ministers, and MPs(even if they don’t reply)– and use social media to amplify your voice.

    Don’t give up. There’s still so much hope.

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing
    edited April 2025

    Dear Scope Members,


    I’d be grateful for your support in helping this important new petition gain momentum:

    Withdraw the Scrapping of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) in the Green Paper


    The Government must immediately withdraw the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper and conduct a full and meaningful inclusive consultation with disabled people at all stages of any proposal, in accordance with the Gunning Principles.

    The Green Paper proposes scrapping WCA and replacing PIP as a single health assessment using a stricter 4-point daily living test, without meaningful consultation with disabled people-either during development or now. No clear way exists for them to share views.It’s not an inclusive approach.This breaches the Gunning Principles of consultation . The aim of the proposal seems cost-cutting, not real reform. These changes would have devastating impacts on disabled people, their families, &children.


    Sign the petition

    Please consider signing and sharing to protect vital support for disabled people.


    Thank you so much for your solidarity and support✊

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering
    edited April 2025

    I believe it will be abolished 2028/9 , i retire in 2031, so would have to save now for that gap in between retirement ,the basic state pension hubby retires a year before me so goodness what they will torture us with as his pension will clash with other benefits .

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    signed when hubby gets up he will sign it also , I cannot wait to see how many have signed

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    @sarah_lea12

    Thank you so much.
    As it now has 5 signatures-The petition is currently being reviewed by the Parliamentary Petitions Standards team and will hopefully be published soon. If it gains enough support, it could become a key petition in the fight to protect disabled rights.

    Disabled voices matter.

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    @sarah_lea12

    Looking at the public pushback and widespread uproar, I truly hope this proposal doesn’t go through. Scope’s main campaign is also nearing 100,000 signatures, which should trigger a much-needed debate in Parliament. However you look at it, this rushed, vague, and lengthy proposal-along with a non-inclusive consultation process—is discriminatory on multiple grounds.

    So hopefully, you’re going to enjoy your run-up to retirement! 🤞😊
    Let’s keep ramping up the pressure from every direction.

    Disabled voices matter. 💪🏼

  • Anniebeau
    Anniebeau Online Community Member Posts: 27 Contributor

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/20/the-whole-policy-is-wrong-rebellion-among-labour-mps-grows-over-5bn-benefits-cut

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing
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