The welfare bill still forces people into poverty – we must remove the cuts entirely

The welfare bill still threatens even deeper cuts and is morally indefensible

Andy McDonald is the Labour Party MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East Last week in Parliament, nearly 50 Labour MPs took a principled stand and voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. They did so because they could not support measures that will take billions from disabled people—many already struggling to make ends meet—and deepen the poverty that continues to scar our country. And I know many other colleag…

Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person’s Experience of the Welfare Cuts Debacle

Penny Pepper explores the impact of the watered-down Welfare Bill and questions the very notion of ‘work’ as a marker of human value

UN panel raises concerns over Government's welfare bill

A UN panel has asked the Government for more details about its welfare bill amid concerns over its impact on disabled people.The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has asked about measures to “address the foreseeable risk of increasing poverty rates amongst persons with disabilities if cuts are approved”.In a letter from the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights on behalf of the committee, the panel said it had received “cred…

The welfare bill still forces people into poverty – we must remove the cuts entirely

Last week’s 11th-hour scramble to save the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill was a stark reminder of how not to make long-term welfare policy.

Consultation response: Pathways to Work Green Paper - The Poverty Alliance

The Poverty Alliance and our members are deeply concerned by many of the proposed changes to our social security system included in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. In our response to this UK Government consultation, we highlight aconcerns about the impact that revised proposals on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill will have on creating unjust inequality in our social security safety net for young disabled people and t…

Emma Roddick MSP: “We must challenge the dangerous rhetoric that seeks to divide us and stigmatise disabled people.”

In the ongoing public discourse surrounding social security, there’s a troubling trend towards dehumanising those who rely on support.  We hear terms like “benefit scroungers” or debates about the “cost of welfare,” which strip away the fundamental truth: social security is about human rights.  It’s about ensuring everyone has the ability to live with dignity, […]