The move from DLA to PIP impact assessment was that over 300,000 people would lose their entitlement. neweconomics.org/2025/03/the-... Any gov. review or reform's objective is to cut benefits. They'll talk about the greatest needs or the most disabled forgetting all the others who also need support

PIP review: Disabled people’s organisations raise concerns over ‘less than honest’ and ‘diluted’ report www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d... via @johnpringdns

That was the whole point of the exercise PIP review: Disability minister leading review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d... via @johnpringdns

PIP review: DWP removes PIP deaths and harm figures from annual report, just as Timms publishes findings www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d... via @johnpringdns

Secret reviews into claimant deaths nearly doubled last year, DWP annual report reveals (…on page 94) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-revie... via @johnpringdns

"J'aurais aimé qu'il y ait des mécanismes qui n'en feraient pas un droit qui s'impose aux autres, à la famille", explique Didier Sicard.

That Mahmood is in contention for a job, + hasn't been briefed that she symbolises the Starmer govt's immoral and futile attempt to curry favour with Reform voters with harsh and economically self harming policies towards migrants and asylum seekers, and concluded she should resign, is depressing.

It is mainly because of Mahmood that progressive Labour members joined Green or Libdem

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Jaw dropping story from EU Observer this morning about a sketchy NGO contracted to implement Frontex's return program for Afghanistan

Unsurprisingly, a number of people asked me to look at this story doing the rounds on all the right-wing media 🧐 So let's take a look at who is exempt from the ban and why, and when this "two-tier" situation came about (spoiler - it's nothing new!) 1/20

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

That is a really important point

Last week's announcements crystalised the biggest risks ahead for PIP reform. I've written about how a seemingly shared diagnosis between disabled people and government can mask two competing prescriptions for change. disabilitysocialsecurity.substack.com/p/a-pre-mort...

New post: **On “What’s really going on with mental health?” in the FT** ...following-up @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece about our research over the weekend, based on research with @chrishenking.bsky.social inequalities.substack.com/p/on-whats-r...

On “What’s really going on with mental health?” in the FT open.substack.com/pub/inequali...

Local Housing Allowance rates don't tend to get a lot of press because they're a bit technical. However, they have been deliberately kept low by policy decisions over multiple governments. That is having a severe impact on the financially vulnerable. www.crisis.org.uk/media/00pnzl...

It’s so tiring/insulting, the constant constant insinuation that we go through all the hassle of moving here, living here for years and years (often much longer than the five everyone keeps claiming), doing all that because we want to have access to one of the rich world’s shabbier benefits system.

From Stephan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

Watching people with no background or history in MH grappling with this is ... something. Imagine if you had the humility to platform experts. Imagine.

Nothing made me understand more about poverty than this article Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken www.theguardian.com/society/2014...

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ITN fails to explain why Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine does not push back on false claims of ‘spiralling welfare’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/itn-fails-to... via @johnpringdn

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...

ITN fails to explain why Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine does not push back on false claims of ‘spiralling welfare’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/itn-fails-to... via @johnpringdn

Please support John. He has been fighting this battle for such a long time Disability News Service needs new subscribers www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n... via @johnpringdns

Motability customers will face much more than £400 extra costs on average, thanks to Reeves’ tax rises www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-c... via @johnpringdns

PIP is increasingly vital resource for disabled people but is ‘not fit for purpose’, says interim Timms Review report www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-is-incre... via @johnpringdns

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

One way to put British citizens first might be to not deport, threat to deport, or imply you could at some point in the future deport their spouses?

This headline is misleading. Not in the usual way I cover - but language matters. I suspect this is lazy headline writing, but who knows? The figures will and should shock people! And I will also cover one of the pervasive retorts - "yes, but what about army veterans..." 🧵 1/23

🧵#Timms Review: "For some people, the current design and delivery of PIP itself can create barriers to participation, including in work, physical activity and community life." I.e the process, not the award can create barriers. But in the media release, PIP itself is framed as the barrier. Subtle?

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 DR UK issues our statement on the Timms Review interim report, which was published today. "With the hostile political backdrop, Disabled people are fully justified in being concerned about the scope of the Review recommendations" In full👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-s...

When they tell you that the welfare bill is unsustainable

3. Rising spending on disability benefits and other health-related benefit spending have pushed up overall spending on benefits for working-age adults and children since the pandemic but as a share of GDP total benefit spending is still lower than it was in 2012.

1. Since 2019, the number of working age disability benefit claimants has increased from 2.0 million to 3.6 million and from 5.5% of the working age population to 8.9% of the working age population.

To claim that welfare is over generous is pure political venom. In reality, people are treated with complete inhumanity, failing to get the support they need because of a decade and a half of brutal politics and cuts. Labour is no longer playing along. Bravo. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

I had to check but this is genuine. What a way to trigger a by-election.

Morning All. I've always wondered where electricians came from. 😏

It is *not* "special treatment" to apply to legal migrants the rules that were in force when they came What is "special" [ie vindictive & politically/economically counterproductive] is to retrospectively change the rules for those migrants to fulfil a deportation agenda inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

«Nous en sommes donc là. Le débat public paraît à ce point dégradé qu’il ne va pas de soi que la double reconnaissance de culpabilité d’une politique dans un scandale d’une telle gravité n’est pas en elle-même synonyme de disqualification pour l’élection suprême.» www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

On my way, Clacton.

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

If I could vote, I would vote for Count Binface

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another karma today #LePen

The Times going after people with ADHD on their front page today

There no requirement to work with PIP, but some do and some don't. Another journalist who does not understand the benefit system