@thorogood.bsky.social
strategic comms @ trussell - working to build people’s solidarity with everyone on low incomes (and dial down the volume on all that stuff that tries to divide us), so we end the need for food banks for good. she/her. views my own blah blah
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Appalling.
- 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP
- 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants
- £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
- 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP
- 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants
- £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
🚨 CONFIRMED: Social security for disabled people has been slashed in the Spring Statement.
This is cruel, irresponsible and shameful.
People at food banks are already telling us that they’re terrified about how they will survive.
This is cruel, irresponsible and shameful.
People at food banks are already telling us that they’re terrified about how they will survive.
March 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Appalling.
- 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP
- 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants
- £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
- 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP
- 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants
- £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
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Keir Starmer believes that the one million sick or disabled young people who have to undertake Kafkaesque processes to get support are best helped into work by cutting their benefits.
Can you imagine your child struggling with, say, Long Covid or suicidal depression, and telling them this?
Can you imagine your child struggling with, say, Long Covid or suicidal depression, and telling them this?
March 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Keir Starmer believes that the one million sick or disabled young people who have to undertake Kafkaesque processes to get support are best helped into work by cutting their benefits.
Can you imagine your child struggling with, say, Long Covid or suicidal depression, and telling them this?
Can you imagine your child struggling with, say, Long Covid or suicidal depression, and telling them this?
if you’re not mentioning the £5bn of treasury cuts to disabled people’s social security payments in your email to party members about making social security work, you probably know it’s not the right to do, it won’t help make the system fit for purpose + it’s not what people want to see 👀
March 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
if you’re not mentioning the £5bn of treasury cuts to disabled people’s social security payments in your email to party members about making social security work, you probably know it’s not the right to do, it won’t help make the system fit for purpose + it’s not what people want to see 👀
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🚨 Today’s announcement is alarming.
It’s true, our social security system needs an urgent update.
But cutting disability benefits is not the way to fix it.
Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger. Huge cuts risk pushing more people to food banks.
It’s true, our social security system needs an urgent update.
But cutting disability benefits is not the way to fix it.
Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger. Huge cuts risk pushing more people to food banks.
March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨 Today’s announcement is alarming.
It’s true, our social security system needs an urgent update.
But cutting disability benefits is not the way to fix it.
Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger. Huge cuts risk pushing more people to food banks.
It’s true, our social security system needs an urgent update.
But cutting disability benefits is not the way to fix it.
Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger. Huge cuts risk pushing more people to food banks.
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📢New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday.
A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one. ⤵️
There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday.
A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one. ⤵️
@jrf-uk.bsky.social has analysed caseload data and can see much of the forecast growth in PIP spending is directed at people with significant difficulties across a range of areas. Over half of the growth in spending is from people in receipt of the higher rate in both PIP elements.
March 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday.
A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one. ⤵️
There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday.
A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one. ⤵️
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❗ The government is talking about making huge cuts to disabled people’s social security.
These cuts aren’t about helping people overcome barriers to work.
They’re about making short-term savings, by slashing the incomes of disabled people who most need our support.
These cuts aren’t about helping people overcome barriers to work.
They’re about making short-term savings, by slashing the incomes of disabled people who most need our support.
March 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
❗ The government is talking about making huge cuts to disabled people’s social security.
These cuts aren’t about helping people overcome barriers to work.
They’re about making short-term savings, by slashing the incomes of disabled people who most need our support.
These cuts aren’t about helping people overcome barriers to work.
They’re about making short-term savings, by slashing the incomes of disabled people who most need our support.
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“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What mental illnesses are being ‘over diagnosed’ and who by? And what effect is that supposedly having on claims for PIP which uses a functional not diagnostic test? It’s so important that public & political debates about mental health, illness and social security are informed by robust evidence
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What mental illnesses are being ‘over diagnosed’ and who by? And what effect is that supposedly having on claims for PIP which uses a functional not diagnostic test? It’s so important that public & political debates about mental health, illness and social security are informed by robust evidence
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So much has been taken out of our social security system since 2010 - the PIP cuts being floated could be the 4th biggest.
Important analysis from my brilliant colleagues at JRF.
Important analysis from my brilliant colleagues at JRF.
See jrf.org.uk/social-secur... for @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis from me looking at the c400 welfare changes (mostly cuts) scored the OBR since 2010. A £6bn cut containing a £5bn PIP cut is unprecedented - and I use that word advisedly.
March 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So much has been taken out of our social security system since 2010 - the PIP cuts being floated could be the 4th biggest.
Important analysis from my brilliant colleagues at JRF.
Important analysis from my brilliant colleagues at JRF.
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As I said to BBCBreakfast government *isn’t* proposing reform. It’s cuts.
The DWP has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can.
Treasury is driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
The DWP has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can.
Treasury is driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
🗣️ "We are very worried and appalled"
Our Director of Policy, Research & Impact, Helen Barnard spoke to BBC Breakfast about the UK government's plans to cut vital disability support.
Our Director of Policy, Research & Impact, Helen Barnard spoke to BBC Breakfast about the UK government's plans to cut vital disability support.
March 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As I said to BBCBreakfast government *isn’t* proposing reform. It’s cuts.
The DWP has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can.
Treasury is driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
The DWP has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can.
Treasury is driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
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❗ A plan to slash disability support is cruel and risks pushing more people to the doors of food banks.
But there's still time to show the UK government that this plan is short-sighted and shameful.
Email your MP now and urge them to call on Keir Starmer to think again 👉 bit.ly/4kFR5Bj
But there's still time to show the UK government that this plan is short-sighted and shameful.
Email your MP now and urge them to call on Keir Starmer to think again 👉 bit.ly/4kFR5Bj
March 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
❗ A plan to slash disability support is cruel and risks pushing more people to the doors of food banks.
But there's still time to show the UK government that this plan is short-sighted and shameful.
Email your MP now and urge them to call on Keir Starmer to think again 👉 bit.ly/4kFR5Bj
But there's still time to show the UK government that this plan is short-sighted and shameful.
Email your MP now and urge them to call on Keir Starmer to think again 👉 bit.ly/4kFR5Bj