Welfare cuts

Why disabled people are worried that the Timms Review could be used as a cover for PIP cuts
Mikey Erhardt

Why disabled people are worried that the Timms Review could be used as a cover for PIP cuts

Mikey Erhardt, a campaigner for Disability Rights UK, expresses concern about what the Timms Review will mean for personal independence payment (PIP) in the future

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: ‘This opportunity cannot be wasted’
Disability benefits

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: ‘This opportunity cannot be wasted’

Most of the people on the newly-elected steering group have lived experience of disability or claiming personal independence payment (PIP)

Labour MP calls on government to boost universal credit: ‘We need to up our game’
Universal credit

Labour MP calls on government to boost universal credit: ‘We need to up our game’

Neil Duncan-Jordan spoke to the Big Issue about why he wants to see an ‘essentials guarantee’ in universal credit, what he thinks about the government’s approach to welfare, and where he thinks Labour is going wrong

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work, Citizens Advice warns
Disability benefits

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work, Citizens Advice warns

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?
Mikey Erhardt

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?

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Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system
Arun Veerappan

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
Ayla Ozmen

‘Incentivising work’ or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system
Lucy Bannister

How trust could transform Britain’s broken benefits system

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: ‘There’s no quick fix’
Politics

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: ‘There’s no quick fix’

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations
Rick Burgess and Alex Firth

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit
Millie Light

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?
Mikey Erhardt

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?

Suspended rebel MP Rachael Maskell: ‘If Labour doesn’t change, I fear where this country is headed’
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Suspended rebel MP Rachael Maskell: ‘If Labour doesn’t change, I fear where this country is headed’

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?
Disability benefits

MPs vote to make Labour’s ‘reckless’ benefits bill into law – despite disabled people’s fears. Now what?

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’
Disability benefits

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead
Diane Johnson

As an autistic teen I depended on the benefits system – we’re all at risk if harmful reforms go ahead

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?
Disability benefits

PIP cuts are paused after ‘shambolic’ series of U-turns – but is it enough to rebuild trust in Labour?

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’
Disability benefits

Here’s why 49 Labour MPs still voted against Starmer’s benefits bill: ‘It’s not the Labour way’

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’
Disability benefits

MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote
Disability benefits

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote

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I’m a Labour MP and this is why I still can’t support the government’s disability benefits cuts
Cat Eccles MP

I’m a Labour MP and this is why I still can’t support the government’s disability benefits cuts

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?
Disability benefits

Starmer finally backs down on disability benefits cuts – but are the concessions enough?

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless
Disability benefits

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love
Disability benefits

If Labour takes my PIP away, I’ll have to give up the job I love