@anitabellows.bsky.social
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“Devastating” and “punitive” tax changes to the #Motability scheme that will add hundreds of pounds to upfront payments to lease cars are “baffling” and “unjust” and threaten to “lock disabled people out of daily life”, say campaigners.
#Budget2025
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
#Budget2025
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November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“Devastating” and “punitive” tax changes to the #Motability scheme that will add hundreds of pounds to upfront payments to lease cars are “baffling” and “unjust” and threaten to “lock disabled people out of daily life”, say campaigners.
#Budget2025
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
#Budget2025
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/budgets-mota...
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty
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theconversation.com/the-two-chil...
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty
The controversial policy was a product of the UK’s austerity period.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty
theconversation.com/the-two-chil...
theconversation.com/the-two-chil...
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Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
How difficult is it to understand that children in poverty equals families in poverty?
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How difficult is it to understand that children in poverty equals families in poverty?
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Our conversation is stuck on the far-right -named “Boris wave” while net immigration has actually DROPPED BY EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) since then!!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our conversation is stuck on the far-right -named “Boris wave” while net immigration has actually DROPPED BY EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) since then!!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
Department for Work & Pensions 2024-25
Outdated IT systems which are inefficient to use and increase risk of error.
IT systems are not fully integrated, with separate systems for different benefits
Some benefit processing still paper-based
www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@nao.org.uk
Outdated IT systems which are inefficient to use and increase risk of error.
IT systems are not fully integrated, with separate systems for different benefits
Some benefit processing still paper-based
www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@nao.org.uk
www.nao.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Department for Work & Pensions 2024-25
Outdated IT systems which are inefficient to use and increase risk of error.
IT systems are not fully integrated, with separate systems for different benefits
Some benefit processing still paper-based
www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@nao.org.uk
Outdated IT systems which are inefficient to use and increase risk of error.
IT systems are not fully integrated, with separate systems for different benefits
Some benefit processing still paper-based
www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@nao.org.uk
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Rachel Reeves' decision to lift the two-child limit on benefits is a hard-won, long overdue victory that will lift 350,000 children out of poverty.
However, it will make no difference to children whose parents are migrants and subject to NRPF (banned from claiming benefits).
However, it will make no difference to children whose parents are migrants and subject to NRPF (banned from claiming benefits).
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Rachel Reeves' decision to lift the two-child limit on benefits is a hard-won, long overdue victory that will lift 350,000 children out of poverty.
However, it will make no difference to children whose parents are migrants and subject to NRPF (banned from claiming benefits).
However, it will make no difference to children whose parents are migrants and subject to NRPF (banned from claiming benefits).
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A Calais, trois ans après la sortie de mon enquête, rien n’a changé.
Pire, les décès de personnes exilées se multiplient dans l’indifférence.
Ces prochaines semaines, je vais y retourner, continuer ce travail auprès des habitants et assos.
Soutenez le ! fr.tipeee.com/louiswitter
Pire, les décès de personnes exilées se multiplient dans l’indifférence.
Ces prochaines semaines, je vais y retourner, continuer ce travail auprès des habitants et assos.
Soutenez le ! fr.tipeee.com/louiswitter
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A Calais, trois ans après la sortie de mon enquête, rien n’a changé.
Pire, les décès de personnes exilées se multiplient dans l’indifférence.
Ces prochaines semaines, je vais y retourner, continuer ce travail auprès des habitants et assos.
Soutenez le ! fr.tipeee.com/louiswitter
Pire, les décès de personnes exilées se multiplient dans l’indifférence.
Ces prochaines semaines, je vais y retourner, continuer ce travail auprès des habitants et assos.
Soutenez le ! fr.tipeee.com/louiswitter
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And the £1 billion extra employment support results in 20,000 to 40,000 people getting into work by 2029/30. This is more pessimistic than our estimates at the time (45,000-95,000), which @learnworkuk.bsky.social produced for us: 3/3 learningandwork.org.uk/resources/re...
Estimating the impacts of extra employment support for disabled people
learningandwork.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
And the £1 billion extra employment support results in 20,000 to 40,000 people getting into work by 2029/30. This is more pessimistic than our estimates at the time (45,000-95,000), which @learnworkuk.bsky.social produced for us: 3/3 learningandwork.org.uk/resources/re...
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Cutting Universal Credit's health element means 750,000 new claimants by 2029/30 missing out on ~£3,000 a year, but OBR says this will lead to only a 26,000 rise in employment. That’s just 3% of people hit by this deep cut, with most simply being pulled into deeper hardship. 2/3
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cutting Universal Credit's health element means 750,000 new claimants by 2029/30 missing out on ~£3,000 a year, but OBR says this will lead to only a 26,000 rise in employment. That’s just 3% of people hit by this deep cut, with most simply being pulled into deeper hardship. 2/3
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Today the OBR finally published employment impacts of Govt’s (remaining) disability benefit cuts, which weren’t ready in the spring. Confirms @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis at the time that these huge cuts to disabled people’s incomes come with relatively few expected to move into work. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today the OBR finally published employment impacts of Govt’s (remaining) disability benefit cuts, which weren’t ready in the spring. Confirms @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis at the time that these huge cuts to disabled people’s incomes come with relatively few expected to move into work. 🧵1/3
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Not well understood that 6 in 10 families impacted by the two-child limit are in work, and that the vast majority have 3 or 4 children.
The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not well understood that 6 in 10 families impacted by the two-child limit are in work, and that the vast majority have 3 or 4 children.
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New PIP claims are starting to decline
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New PIP claims are starting to decline
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OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.
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Carers Allowance Overpayments Review is truly jaw-dropping. Years of abject failure from DWP to treat carers with fairness or compassion is appalling. All credit to @carers-uk.bsky.social for tireless campaigning. And Stephen Timms for commissioning the review and accepting recommendations.
Major news in the campaign to stop the Carers Allowance Overpayments scandal: https://go.carersuk.org/CA-OP?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_d070omahrm. The Government have published the independent review by @lizsayce and its response.
Unprecedented changes for carers as Government responds to Carer’s Allowance overpayments review recommendations | Carers UK
It’s a landmark day today for the carers’ movement now that the Government has responded to the independent review of overpayments by Liz Sayce OBE.
go.carersuk.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Carers Allowance Overpayments Review is truly jaw-dropping. Years of abject failure from DWP to treat carers with fairness or compassion is appalling. All credit to @carers-uk.bsky.social for tireless campaigning. And Stephen Timms for commissioning the review and accepting recommendations.
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How much do we spend on welfare?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How much do we spend on welfare?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP – just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than 2007-08.
Since 2012-13, total welfare spending has actually fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP.
I bet Max Tempers feels proud of himself, but that will never be enough. He and his ilks do not object to disabled people buying (because they buy them) luxurious cars. They object to disabled people getting anything at all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I bet Max Tempers feels proud of himself, but that will never be enough. He and his ilks do not object to disabled people buying (because they buy them) luxurious cars. They object to disabled people getting anything at all.
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“Disabled people should still be going to work!!!”
“No, not like that!”
“No, not like that!”
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Disabled people should still be going to work!!!”
“No, not like that!”
“No, not like that!”
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Isn't it paid for with the Mobility rate of PIP per month regardless of the type of vehicle? So it won't even make any practical difference, it's whatever the gammon version of virtue signalling is.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Isn't it paid for with the Mobility rate of PIP per month regardless of the type of vehicle? So it won't even make any practical difference, it's whatever the gammon version of virtue signalling is.
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
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Is runaway welfare spending to blame for the Chancellor's fiscal challenges?
Hear from @alexclegg.bsky.social on why any claims that the Chancellor could avoid raising in the Budget could by cutting welfare should be scrutinised.
Hear from @alexclegg.bsky.social on why any claims that the Chancellor could avoid raising in the Budget could by cutting welfare should be scrutinised.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is runaway welfare spending to blame for the Chancellor's fiscal challenges?
Hear from @alexclegg.bsky.social on why any claims that the Chancellor could avoid raising in the Budget could by cutting welfare should be scrutinised.
Hear from @alexclegg.bsky.social on why any claims that the Chancellor could avoid raising in the Budget could by cutting welfare should be scrutinised.
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Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...