PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb.
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Read the ‘Carers and Poverty’ chapter of the report, starting on page 95.
www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...
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Guess what the evidence shows? Disabled people pushed into deeper poverty are pushed *further from, not into, the workplace*.
NEW REPORT, PACKED WITH EVIDENCE from community organisations.
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Poverty is deepening.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
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Kendall says Pip claimants who get reassessed after November 2026 will be reassessed under new rules, not current ones Vicky Foxcroft, who resigned as a Labour whip over the bill, asked if the Timms review would have the power to review the budget savings being achieved by these cuts. And she asked what would happen if someone requested a reassessment because of worsening health conditions. Would they be reassessed under the old criteria or the new one? Kendall said that the Timms review was not being driven by the need to save money. (That did not fully address the question. Foxcroft wanted to know if it would be able to recommend more spending.) And Kendall said people can request a reassessment. If that happens before November 2026, that will be under the old system. After that, it will be under the new system, she said.
NEW: Liz Kendall has told MPs that if a disabled person currently on PIP requests a reassessment after November 2026 because of worsening health, they will be assessed on the new tougher criteria.
This confirms The Guardian’s report that those with fluctuating conditions will not be protected.
If your MP is vocal on women’s rights but less so on disability, send them today’s Guardian story. Tell them charities have warned the disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women and could even breach the Equality Act.
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brief history of ICA and subsequent carer's benefits here open access doi.org/10.1332/2397...
married men were always entitled to Invalid Care Allowance - but yes, great to mark the important legal case which enabled it to be extended to married women!
Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if the disability benefit cuts go ahead, new research by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows.
No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...
There are 4.5 million kids already in poverty and another 109 are pulled into poverty every day by the two-child limit alone. If this govt is serious in its commitment to the nation’s children, it can’t keep waiting for the stars to align before taking action. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Want a 3yr quali postdoc job leading the UK fieldwork for an amazing international project on how it feels to claim benefits? And also to do important work on benefits and mental health?
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Our task is urgent, not just because we only have four more years of this parliament, which is no time at all, although this is true, not just because we must deliver real change to fight the rise in support for populists, although we must, but because the people who we came into politics to serve cannot and should not wait any longer for a chance to build a decent life, because they have waited far too long already.
Liz Kendall’s big speech on benefits has declared she wants to help disabled people “build a decent life.” I wonder how taking the disability benefits they need to wash and leave the house achieves that exactly?
We've published our full response to the proposed changes to sickness and disability benefits:
1. This is the biggest cut to sickness and disability benefits in a generation. It will push 50,000 children into poverty, and reduce living standards for many more.
Quote card saying "Disabled people who are able to work already find it much more difficult to find suitable work that accommodates their needs. Today’s falling number of vacancies is just another complicating factor that exposes the need to rethink the government’s fundamentally unworkable plans to cut disability benefits. The Government's increase in employment support is expected to help, at most, 95,000 disabled people into work covering just 3% of people at risk of having their disability benefits cut. This employment support is desperately needed to remove the barriers disabled people face as are reforms to boost the quality of jobs through the Employment Rights Bill. But even the best support is undermined by the harsh extent of impending cuts. The threat of widespread hardship among disabled people, unable to replace the incomes they lose out on through work, is even starker."
My reaction on behalf of @jrf-uk.bsky.social, on today's labour market statistics and the Government's plans to cut disability benefits. The threat of widespread hardship among disabled people, unable to replace the incomes they lose out on through work, is even starker.
The Devastating Human Rights Impact of Social Security Failures in the UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social
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Great piece from @rjpartington.bsky.social @theguardian.com on new @trusselluk.bsky.social research out tomorrow. Hunger & hardship are costing UK economy & public services £billions. Slashing disability support & keeping 2 child limit will only make this worse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
not within NLS control - seems to be tied to the British Library issue as far as I understand it
Also National Library of Scotland. Also buying ebooks. Also not available as a result of British Library issues.
Great to see this new report from Scottish Commission on Social Security on accessibility and the Scottish social security system.
🚨 ICYMI: BASW and @swu-uk.bsky.social provide reaction to this week's Spring Statement, warning that welfare cuts will increase need and put pressure on already creaking services.
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Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships
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Our new analysis shows child poverty will rise even higher on this government’s watch - to 4.8m by the end of this parliament (2029/30) - unless it takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.
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Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability.
Deadline: 10 April
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Stealth social security cuts bring neither stability nor security to struggling families and will push child poverty even higher. Growth and better living standards are not achieved by taking money from families with the least...
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