Martin Lewis’s Charity Warns Starmer’s PIP Disability Cuts Will Be ‘Catastrophic’

Revealed: Labour’s welfare cuts will take people out of work

The government’s disability benefit cuts would force people out of work or to reduce their working hours, according to new research by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute – the charity led by Martin Lewis, the consumer champion. Labour’s plans to tighten assessments for the personal independence payment (PIP) will affect around 800,000 claimants. The benefit, designed to help people with disabilities and chronic mental and physical cond…

Martin Lewis’s charity warns Starmer’s PIP disability cuts will be ‘catastrophic’

Martin Lewis’ charity Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has revealed research on the impact of changes to PIP as it calls on the government to drop the plans

Labour’s Access to Work reform plans ‘risk excluding disabled people from the workforce’, say arts leaders – Your Capital Minds

More than 2,500 leading voices from the UK’s arts sector, including the heads of the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, have signed an open letter warning that Labour’s proposed changes to the Access to Work scheme risk excluding disabled people from the workforce entirely. Indhu Rubasingham, artistic director of the National Theatre, and Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, co-artistic directors of the RSC, were among the signatories to…

Homelessness will soar under benefit cuts, say charities

St Mungo’s and other charities urge government to reconsider welfare reform plans. St Mungo’s, along with 13 other homelessness organisations, has issued an open letter calling on the government to reconsider proposed welfare reforms, warning that planned changes – intended to encourage employment – could lead to increased homelessness, particularly among people with health conditions or disabilities.  The proposals, set out in the government’s …

PIP reforms could cost 800,000 people thousands a year - Epilepsy Action

DWP says 800,000 current and future PIP claimants stand to lose out by 2029/30, including a third of people with epilepsy currently on PIP

The human cost of PIP reform - Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

Kate Wells, Research Officer, Money and Mental Health Held by a thread and fighting for every penny: The human cost of PIP reform 5 June 2025 Read a short summary of this blog We’ve just published new research looking at the impact of the government’s proposed reforms to PIP eligibility. What we’ve found strongly suggests that these changes will make hundreds of thousands of people worse off – to the tune of several thousand poun…