https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/not-so-universal-the-two-tiered-health-element-how-the-universal-credit-bill/ The government’s decision to remove cuts to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from the Universal Credit Bill (UC bill) was the right call. However, damaging and unjustified cuts elsewhere in the health and disability benefits system have been overlooked. The UC bill will have a devastating impact on disabled people and their families. An estimated…
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Welfare reform: health-related and disability benefits
Keep up-to-date with the main changes
https://cpag.org.uk/welfare-rights/whats-new/welfare-reform-health-and-disability-benefits Keep up-to-date with the main changes included in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, the Universal Credit Bill and the Employment Rights Bill, affecting personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA), jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) and statutory sick pay (SSP), including proposals for PIP health assessments, work capability assessments, and…
Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/britain-disabled-people-right-food-politics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this?
Universal Credit Bill passes Committee stage and Third Reading in the Commons
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/universal-credit-bill-passes-committee-stage-and-third-reading-in-the-commons Following a 6-hour debate and vote, newly re-named Bill is passed by 336 votes to 242 The newly re-named Universal Credit Bill has passed its remaining stages in the Commons.
Today’s debate on the UC & PIP Bill hasn’t resolved huge gaps in the severe conditions criteria
https://medium.com/@ayaz_manji/todays-debate-on-the-uc-pip-bill-hasn-t-resolved-huge-gaps-in-the-severe-conditions-criteria-97d40ce01d58 What’s the issue? The provisions in the bill will cut the Universal Credit health element in half for most people receiving it after April 2026. By 2030 this will be a cut of £3,000 per year for 750,000 disabled people. The severe conditions criteria set out in Schedule 1 provides some protection from this…
The government has today published a list of amendments to the new welfare reform bill ahead of its Committee stage next week.
among the amendments put forward in the name of the Work and Pensions Secretary are changes relating to – ‘personal independence payment’ being removed from the title of the legislation, so that the Act will be the ‘Universal Credit Act 2025’;the removal of Clause 5 relating to personal independence payment eligibility;providing for universal credit to…
Work and Pensions
Secretary’s letter to
Labour MPs on changes
to ‘strengthen’ the new
welfare reform bill
Dear colleague, We have always said we are determined to reform the social security system so it is fair, provides dignity and respect for those unable to work, supports those who can, and is sustainable so it is there for generations to come. The broken system we inherited from the Tories fails all of those…
https://www.ucpipbill.co.uk/
https://www.ucpipbill.co.uk/ Joint briefing ahead of Second ReadingOn Tuesday 1st July, MPs will be asked to vote on the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade. This briefing from ten organisations including Scope, Citizens Advice, Mind, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell sets out the latest evidence on…
Liz Kendall has today introduced the new Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in the Commons.
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/work-and-pensions-secretary-introduces-new-universal-credit-and-personal-independence-payment-bill-in-the-commons above-inflation increases in the universal credit standard allowance for the tax years 2026/2027 to 2029/2030 (Part 1);reducing the rates of the limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) element for new claims for the tax year 2026/2027 (Part 2);for 2026/2027, providing for entitlement to a higher rate of the LCWRA element, equal to…
Pathways to Poverty: How planned cuts to disability benefits will impact the people we support
By refusing to properly consult on its plan to cut billions from disability benefits, the government is choosing not to ask questions it doesn’t want the answers to. The cuts will have a devastating impact on disabled people (and their children), sending hundreds of thousands into poverty, and many more into deeper poverty. This will…