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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Aug 27

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s benefit cuts.

600,000 disabled people at risk of Labour's next round of benefit cuts

www.bigissue.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Full text of The Telegraph article in screenshot plus weblink below 👇

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

McFadden misleads The Telegraph

"Last thing we want to do is assess a snapshot...assess once & that’s the end of it”

Wrong! The WCA is a RIGOUROUS & REPEATED process

"Youngsters mustn't be abandoned on sickness benefits"

Wrong! Only 73,685 under 22s receive sickness benefits (1.6%)

#CareNotCuts

The Telegraph

Labour 'won't abandon young people to a life on sickness benefits'

New Work and Pensions Secretary pledges to put 'importance of work very much at the heart' of future reforms to welfare system

Pat McFadden has vowed to ramp up back-to-work support Credit: Eddie Mulholland

Nick Gutteridge

Chief Political Correspondent

13 September 2025 6:03pm BST

"Young people must not be abandoned to a life on sickness benefits"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/13/labour-pat-mcfadden-sickness-benefits-welfare-reform/

Interrogation of publicly accessible DWP statXplore database reveals:

February 2025: only 73,685 16-21 year olds were in receipt of an Incapacity ("sickness") benefit (LCW/LCWRA/ESA)

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk

Office for National Statistices People aged 16 to 21 years, population and employment rates (2020):

16-21 yr old population total: 4,520,201
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/peopleaged16to24yearspopulationandemploymentrates

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

FOI exposes the DWP regularly denying PIP to disabled people at risk of suicide

An FOI has revealed that over 100,000 disabled people who are at risk of suicide have been refused PIP by the DWP
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

FOI exposes the DWP regularly denying PIP to disabled people at risk of suicide

An FOI has revealed that over 100,000 disabled people who are at risk of suicide have been refused PIP by the DWP

www.thecanary.co

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨UN Special Rapporteur slams UK Gov over #UCHealth & #disabilitybenefits👇🏼

Gov must respond truthfully—unlike past lies to UN—esp. as #LCW #LCWRA #ESA face axe in #AutumnWhitePaper

Read/share urgently. Lives depend on it.
#UCBill #PIP #UCAct #CareNotCuts

Olivier De Schutter - UN Special Rapporteur on extreme povery @deschuttero.bsky.social · Sep 9

This month UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities Heba Hagrass and I wrote to the #UKGovernment expressing our concerns over the reform
process related to health and disability benefits in the UK #UniversalCreditBill #UCBill #PIP

spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨 Petition:Don’t let UKGov scrap #WorkCapabilityAssessment This’s a direct threat to #LCWRA #ESA + #DisabilityBenefits in the Autumn White Paper. It may not stop it but silence definitely won’t
Sign & share ⬇️

#Disabled #PathwaysToWork #WCA #Disability

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72....

Petition: Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)

The Government must immediately withdraw the proposal to scrap the WCA, as detailed in its Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.

petition.parliament.uk

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · Sep 8

Most disability advocates are disabled people themselves.
They are struggling whilst trying to advocate for themselves and for others.

It’s okay to have time off, and disabled people shouldn’t bear the sole responsibility for fighting for survival in an ableist society.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · Sep 11

As someone who has lived with health conditions for a long time, I can honestly say that, for me, false hope and "optimism" is far worse than simple honesty - even if that honesty is "There's nothing we can do"

Getting your hopes up only to have them dashed is soul destroying

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · Sep 11

Disabled people who cannot work already receive less than what is considered a survival amount of money in benefits in the UK.

Yet it seems many think even this is “too much”.

Because they are disgusting ghouls who want us dead.

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Disability Rebellion @disrebellion.bsky.social · Sep 14

Disability Rebellion and Crips Against Cuts will also be holding online protests at the same time for those who cannot attend in person.

#WelfareNotWarfare
#GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome
#CareNotCuts
#DisabilityRebellion

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Disability Rebellion @disrebellion.bsky.social · Sep 14

Join the @Dis_PPL_Protest protest outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

When - Monday September 29th @ 12pm
Where - The Wheel of Liverpool, L3 4FN

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇

Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...

Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper

By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

I am fearful & feel sick to my stomach Every Single Day because the community I'm part of is ALONE

At least when the Tories were in power Labour pretended to care & fought back

Many of us see where this is heading: ESA 2.0

Help us or a lot of us will die

OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER 🧵

#CareNotCuts

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇

Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...

Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper

By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Whilst the WCA urgently needs reforming, the Substantial Risk qualification route allows someone to qualify for protection from work activity requirements when it would cause significant risk, even if they don't meet the functional criteria of the WCA.

There's no equivalent in DL PIP

#CareNotCuts

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Coroner concluded Stephen Carre took his own life due to being found "fit for work"

Highlights IMMENSE DANGER of changing incapacity benefits assessments

Labour are about to risk this happening AGAIN to >584,000

OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER

#CareNotCuts
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/wca-death-sc...

WCA death scandal: Ministers ‘failed to pass 2010 suicide report to Harrington’

Ministers appear to have failed to hand a crucial report about the work capability assessment – warning it put at risk the lives of thousands of people with mental health conditions – to the expert…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

🚨 Labour want to scrap the Work Capability Assessment & make Daily Living PIP the gateway

DWP FOI: 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA claimants tried & failed to qualify for Daily Living PIP

A further 500,000 have never tried to qualify for DL PIP so are also at risk

OPPOSE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER!

#CareNotCuts

37. First, we will scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This will end the state categorising people into binary groups and labelling them as either 'can or can't work'. Instead, any extra financial support for health conditions in UC will be assessed via a single assessment - the PIP assessment - and be based on the impact of disability on daily living, not on capacity to work. [footnote 44] This will de-couple access to the health element in UC (current LCWRA rate referred to as UC health throughout) from work status, so people can be confident that the act of taking steps towards and into employment will not put their benefit entitlement at risk. We will implement this change via primary legislation. Further details will be published in the forthcoming White Paper. We are not consulting on this measure.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper

DWP FOI dated 4 August 2025 showing 584,000 LCW/LCWRA/ESA tried and failed to qualify for DL PIP by November 2024

Interrogation of publicly accessible DWP statXplore database reveals:

Nov 2024: 1,940,853 of 3,025,135 "Health Element" (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) claimants were also in receipt of Daily Living PIP

This means 1,084,282 of "Health Element" claimants were not in receipt of DL PIP

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇

Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...

Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper

By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Full details of new DWP FOI revealing disproportionate effect of DL PIP as gateway for the 'Health Element' (LCW /LCWRA/ESA) Substantial Risk cohort in blog below 👇

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

The 5 remaining “Pathways to Work” proposals & the 2025 autumn White Paper: What’s the likely impact?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Since the Universal Credit Bill passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords you’d be forgiven for thinking that the current ‘welfare war’ for …

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

🚨New DWP FOI

LCW/LCWRA/ESA Substantial Risk cohort are less likely to be in receipt of DL PIP & have a higher DL PIP qualification failure rate

50.3% are not in receipt of DL PIP Vs 36% of all 'Health Element'

29.6% tried & failed to qualify for DL PIP Vs 23% of all 'Health Element'

#CareNotCuts

DWP FOI showing a total of 599,000 claimants qualified via Substantial Risk route as of November 2024

DWP FOI showing a total of 298,000 claimants who qualified via Substantial Risk route as of November 2024 were also in receipt of DL PIP

DWP FOI showing a total of 125,000 claimants who qualified via Substantial Risk route as of November 2024 had tried & failed to qualify for DL PIP

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Write to your MP using the template below to OPPOSE THE AUTUMN WHITE PAPER which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) 👇

Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...

Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper

By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER to protect chronically ill & disabled people

A White Paper is due in the next few weeks expected to dismantle incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA)

DON'T REPEAT SAME MISTAKES THAT LED TO THE UC ACT 2025

READ 👇 & OPPOSE!

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

The 5 remaining “Pathways to Work” proposals & the 2025 autumn White Paper: What’s the likely impact?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Since the Universal Credit Bill passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords you’d be forgiven for thinking that the current ‘welfare war’ for …

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Aug 28

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s welfare reforms.

The figures relate to the DWP's plans to abolish the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).

By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

600,000 disabled people at risk of Labour's next round of benefit cuts

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s benefit cuts.

www.bigissue.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 1

Write to your MP using the template below to oppose the autumn White Paper which will take a wrecking ball to incapacity benefits (LCW/LCWRA/ESA).

Otherwise this will devastate the lives of the most unwell & disabled people in our country.

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/l...

Letter Template to MPs for the Autumn ‘Health Element’ White Paper

By Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Copy the text below and paste it into an email or word document to send to your MP to vocalise your oppostion to the upcoming 2025 Autumn White Paper. The b…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 1

Read my blog below for details about the imminent autumn White Paper which will propose the scrapping of the WCA for LCW/LCWRA/ESA with DL PIP becoming the gateway for incapacity benefits 👇

#CareNotCuts

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

The 5 remaining “Pathways to Work” proposals & the 2025 autumn White Paper: What’s the likely impact?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Since the Universal Credit Bill passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords you’d be forgiven for thinking that the current ‘welfare war’ for …

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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