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Richeldis Yhap (she/they) 🇬🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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PIP 4-point rule impact:

• 1.3m people at risk
• 440k (33%) expected to lose benefits
• 860k expected to keep them via worsened conditions/appeals
• Ratio: 1 loses for every 2 who keep benefits

Why terrorize 1.3m people then? #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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There is no economic case for cutting disability benefits.

There is no moral case for cutting disability benefits.

It won't help people into employment.

It'll mean many who are working won't be able to.

It'll destroy the health and social care system.

It'll end lives.
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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If your in #SEND or #Neurodivergent care. Private diagnosis just became unsafe. The latest #DisabilityBenefits documents just ruled out anything other than a NHS diagnosis will count. It has serious knock on effects this. Even for children now & later in life. #Autistic #Adhd
June 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The Freedom Flotilla is on its way to Gaza again. You can follow it here. freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/...

Greta Thunberg and Rima Hassan (French MEP) are on board

Remember that the last Freedom Flotilla ended with Israel massacring 10 of its passengers and injuring over 50
Madleen Tracker - Freedom Flotilla
Don’t lose the Madleen. Track her journey for safety, accountability, and solidarity   In partnership with Forensic Architecture, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has equipped the ‘Madleen’ with an adva...
freedomflotilla.org
June 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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We’re looking for a Head of Policy & Campaigns at Platfform - if you connect with our purpose, have a passion for social justice & can show us how you have affected successful change through policy and campaigns work then we’d love to hear from you
#PublicAffairs #Politics #Campaigns #SocialJustice
Head of Policy and Campaigns - Flexible with regular requirement to travel as required
If like us, you are passionate about addressing injustice and making a difference to the lives of the people in Wales then you could be our next Head of Policy and Campaigns. This is an exciting time...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Benefits and Work have done a really good piece here, looking at what the DWP is and isn't consulting on.
It isn't consulting on the major issues: scrapping WCA; PIP Daily Living & UC Health Element; freezing UC HE until 2029/30; 4-point criterion for PIP
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-lau...
DWP launches entirely bogus Green Paper consultation
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Reposted by Richeldis Yhap (she/they) 🇬🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
What’s LCWRA?
It’s a part of Universal Credit for people who are medically assessed as unable to work.

Labour plans to:
– Cut support by 50% for new claimants
– Reassess existing ones

That means more fear, more poverty, more harm.

This one is going to court. We won’t allow it.
April 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people.

NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Reminder that the government is killing disabled people, and anyone supporting the government is completed in killing them.

Not going to be nice mince words about it, if you are offended by this then you are part of the problem.
March 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The art mag Frieze has published a piece by a disabled artist about the proposed benefits cut that includes a couple of my doodlings.

www.frieze.com/article/uk-w...
‘We Must Resist’: UK Welfare Cuts Will Harm Disabled Artists
As the Labour government plans to reduce essential support, artists and writers speak out about how the changes will affect them
www.frieze.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Britain's 177 billionaires sit on £965 bn - more EACH than the average Brit will earn in 1000 lifetimes.

So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn
Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door

Author and economist Gary Stevenson, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, and Labour peer Prem Sikka addressed the crowd - calling for Reeves to back down
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door
Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door from Canary on 26 March 2025
www.thecanary.co
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
“If the government goes ahead with these cuts, new care homes will to have to be available.”

I spoke to carers about the catastrophic impact of upcoming PIP cuts: when a disabled person loses their benefit, their loved one will lose Carer’s Allowance too. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect
Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#WelfareNotWarfare

Stop the press 📢

Updated local actions map for the National Day of Action on Wednesday 26th March 2025
March 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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It’s out! Thanks so much to @asylummagazine.bsky.social for letting us guest edit this special issue and to @nsunnews.bsky.social for their support

Please join us on the 13th March for the online launch
Attention ⚠️
The Spring 2025 Special Asylum Issue on Digital Surveillance is out ❤️
Guest-edited by @stopoxevision.bsky.social
With the support of @nsunnews.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
March 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Please call out dog whistles in #benefits coverage if you can. These words aren’t neutral—they’re framing devices:

Genuine
Working families
Scrapheap
Spiralling
Medicalising
Lifestyle choice
Hardworking taxpayers
Wasting potential
Sickness (not disability)
Ups and downs of life
March 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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In this seminar, Rachel Rowan Olive will discuss research interviews with ten multilingual voice-hearers conducted as part of her MA in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck. As well as presenting findings and the questions they raise
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitativ...
Qualitative Health Research Network Seminar Series
Rachel Rowan Olive presents "Exploring multilingual voice-hearers’ experiences"
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Section 28 - never forget, never go back

Researchers at Swansea Uni and Cardiff Uni have launched The 28 Archive - a history project about growing up under Section 28 in Wales.

Please share with people genuinely & positively interested

Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@swanseauni.bsky.social
@cardiffuni.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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On March 31 2025 the Acer Unit at Southmead hospital will close. It is the only detox available on the NHS in Bristol. There are no current plans to open a replacement unit at this time .
www.change.org/p/save-the-a...
Sign the Petition
Save the Acer unit detox
www.change.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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PhD places available with the Quantum Light and Matter group in Durham.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD Studentship in Quantum, Light and Matter at Durham University, UK at Durham University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD Studentship in Quantum, Light and Matter at Durham University, UK at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Richeldis Yhap (she/they) 🇬🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
As disabled people, we are worth more than our economic productivity. Access to therapy and healthcare should never depend differentially on our participation in work programmes or being deemed 'work-ready.' Care is a right, not a reward. #WhitePaper #GetBritainWorking
November 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM