Universal Credit Act 2025 - Latest Updates (05.03.26)

If I get reassessed for LCWRA I now live in an adapted social housing bungalow and waiting for a level access (wet room) to be installed ,my conditions are certainly not going to change . I am hoping PIP will give me an ongoing award next year too, the stress of the assessments and reviews cause my mental health to get worse . I would also add to the LCWRA assessment that i have profound hearing loss wear hearing aids and still miss words that people speak to me 🤣

Dear Delee,

Thank you for your deeply compassionate words of strength power and encouragement.

I will keep going, on with redrafting a proposed strategy to get back the £2.5bn disability welfare benefit cuts.

Life is very tough at the mo.

A new 9th MSK diagnosis: Herberden's Nodule, my last joint on my left little finger is swollen and painful sometimes, a form of osteoarthritis, net keeps cutting out and my mobile too so its difficult and time consuming to make phone calls and emails.

I DO need help to find an academic to get the accurate figures of 13m disabled people, number of pensioners 8m, and and to help with other requests.

Much info can be Googled.

I need more than moral support, I need volunteers re any tasks to create an Effective Proposed Strategy to get back the £2.5bn Disability cuts via an Alliance odf Disability, Mental health, and Pensioners Groups.

United we stand divided we fall.

Tasks

Please do them with joy, if you can. with a fighting spirit of resistance knowing we are creating compassion for all.

An academic in statistics to get accurate figures see above please

Can someone email Jeremy Corbynn and ask will he support the reversal of the 2.5bn cuts, Google Your Party please.

This is the start of a cross partly non-party political campaign, NB. Because Scope is a charity and cannot support any one political party, charity law.

Need people to give details of all disability, mental health and pensioner/ grey power national groups charity. advocacy groups in the UK,

Just post the Googled results to me c/o this forum.

There are great physical pains, backache, joint and muscle pains triggered traumas, but recovery nis quick insomnia etc, you know 34 diagnoses to cope with and process to freedom and compassion, day and night.

Tears and joy, joy and tears.

No different from what the world changers of this world, heroes and heroines in every social movement for social and compassionate justice and equality experienced.

Never give up, ever see the best in you, because of pains, disability, see the best in friends, allies, even enemies.

Reduce bitterness, turn it into love via the fire of clear thinking and or meditation,

Sayings of The Buddha - please Google latter, it will inspire you: -

''In thew crucible of determination the Master finds true freedom.''

ALL demons are diamonds,

with courage and the right insights for the individual.

Turn hurt stigma in to a fire of love and win our human right dignity and well being back.

WE ARE NOT PIRECES OF S*** UNDER SOMEONE'S SHOES, BUT WE HAVE FELT LIKE THAT.

WE ARE HUIMAN BEINGS WHO DESERVE LOVE, JUSTICE AND RECOGNITION AND POWER.

AND WE WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.

WE WILL SHOW THE GOVT OF THE DAY WE WON PARTLY the govt wanted 5bn cuts, got 2.5bn

AND CAN WIN FULLY OUR BENEFITS BACK, TO BE TREATED WITH REPECT, HUMAN DIGNITY NOT CRUELTY AND COMPASSION AND EQUALLY.

Life continues to be tough but I I am not a masochist and recognise there are many good and sweet things in life like the sunshine, the darling buds of March?! in my large wildlife gardens, the kids playing in the street, their joy and spomtaneity, kidstuff, good freinds who rally round, most of whom who have trauma.

Can anyone please help with the tsks need to complete a Strategy to get out 2.5bn£ cuts back outlined in the my last few posts.

W have to work for our freedom and this, if we sit and wait for others to do it well it will never happen:

the realism of courage and recognising reality.

Life and this 'Labour' govt is SO unfair, we need to organise and act and work together with love and support, and even joy - you might even enjoy the struggle,

I do not understand the comment above re barricades? Please enlighten me.

This is from the free paper on the bus in Leeds:

Metro.co.uk Thursday June 26th 2025

Letters

[ ] Can we ever imagine a time when the British government of the day wont seek to make the sick and disabled pay for its spending choices in other areas?

Philip Duval, Manchester.

[ ] Sir Keir Starmer is buying 12 F-35A US jets to expand our 'nuclear deterrence'.

We have been aware of the threat from Russia for many years, even before Vladmir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 (or 2014 if we are counting Crimea) yet we have been happy to let Ukraine fight this wart on behalf of the rest of Europe instead of giving them what they need to actually push Russia back, which you would think would be the most effective way of protecting the UK from Russian aggression.

This newfound appetite for defence spending is clearly being driven by Donald Trump's threat of withdrawing from NATO unless European states spend more, which effectively highlights who it is that determines UK defence policy.

Is this really the best way to protect the UK in modern warfare, which is highly digitised and much more reliant on new technology such as drones.

In particular, is it really the case having 10 times as many nuclear weapons equates to 10 times as much nuclear deterrence, given a single nuclear strike would have such huge consequences?

Sir Keir Starmer has chosen to prioritise an arms race over welfare, climate change, international collaboration and human rights.

What a difference a year in power make

Federico Moscogluri, Hertford.

New PIP Claimants after UC PIP Bill 2025:

- do they have the same criteria for getting PIP as before the Bill, or different?

• Are there more frequent and stricter tests to be able to claim PIP?

Please advise Scope benefit advisors, or anyone else qualified to answer?

The public at least 20 million of them out of UK population of 67 million claim some kinmd of disability welfare benefit, or could do., so we are the public, and have friends and allies, who care for us.

So, if we galvanise our disability, mental health and elderly/ grey power groups we can reverse the OPIP changes.

Also, I am still continuing to ask charity lawyers, including Mind Legal Unit, poro bono solicitors if there is any legal challenge at all, as the PIP changes, and ESA changes too have been described as unfair yes, but also illegal.

IU have been asking for 1 year now, and may actually take the govt to court, have set 3 legal precedents in my life. One was to overturn the decision of the DSS who refused me Income Support, a measly £16 odd, back in 1981, because I was not 18 years old, or estranged from my parents.

I told the DSS manager via complaint from a solicitor, at Chapeltown and Herehills Law Centre, Leeds 7, that I saw on the 10 O'[ Clock News, both BBC and ITN, that it said if someone is a citizen of the UK and destitute through no fault of their own, they are entitled to welfare benefits.

I said further, that the DSS is there to support people and after 5 months of no income, leaving home after 11 years of domestic violence by 5 members of my family, I would rather starve to death than go 'home.'

And that I was trying to improve my life by doing A Levels and they should support me.

I did not have a diagnosis of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, or mood disorder, all these came at least 20 years later, so I missed out on disability benefits, and appropriate healthcare from the NHS making my physical and mental health worse. So costing the DDSS more and the NHS because of lack of early diagnosis.

I gained a small amount of compensation for severe hardship, after writing to my MP, Dennis Healey at the time.

Also I publicised my story in local and national newspapers, and said the DSS should be totally ashamed of themselves for causing me intense worry, stress, increasing anxiety and depression, .

I did get an apology from the DSS District Manager.

It was a horrible traumatising experience.

And then 10 years later I became a disability and mental health advocate.

Hi out there, does anyone know if there is a bill that has gone through the house of lords in which the DWP can take up to 40% of funds available if they suspect fraud with no evidence? At any given time

Thanks for the detailed breakdown, this looks like a clear shift towards incentivising work while still protecting the most vulnerable claimants. The contrast between rising standard allowance and frozen LCWRA for new claimants will be interesting to see in real impact over the next few years.

I expect a gap, such as being found LCW, then later found LCWRA would be the lower rate? However I found a upper tribunal decision which found that if the gap is caused by means testing closing the UC claim, then the DWP cant treat it as a new claim, when they qualify for UC again, unless there is a new WCA that is different to the older LCWRA decision.

Hi

I know who you are on about. She was always coming up on my you tube and I would listen to her to the point she terrified me so I blocked her. I now know longer see her videos. I've blocked quite a few on YouTube to the point I will not venture on to YouTube. A lot of them a scaremongering and it's not nice. I don't go on tiktok either that was just as bad.