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Keep your Seat, Support Disabled Voters

We implore you to vote against the cuts proposed in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper for the following reasons:

There will be no increase in economic growth 

  • When constituents lose PIP, they lose carers allowance. Local councils would then be forced to foot the bill for care. Cuts to PIP just move financial pressure elsewhere.

  • Rather than saving £5bn, actual delivered savings will be £100M or just 2% by 2030. That’s less than one day of NHS funding.

The proposed reforms will not increase disabled employment

  • PIP is not an out-of-work benefit; cutting it will decrease disabled people’s ability to work

  • The cost-cutting for the Access to Work scheme that has been announced will reduce employment further

Working disabled people are already struggling to buy food

  • These reforms are predicted to cause 350,000 people, including 50,000 children, to fall into poverty.

  • Around 66,000 Disabled people (under 22) are set to lose around £45 a week in support, with some hit with a “double whammy”, no longer qualifying for PIP or UC health component, losing at least £9,600 per year.

80 Labour MPs are at risk of losing their majorities over the proposed cuts

Briefing: Personal Independence Payments and Disabled People

Learn about the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and how they could push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty, limit access to work, and increase strain on public services. Read more.

Briefing: Disabled People, Employment and Poverty 

Understand how benefit cuts, high living costs, and unstable work impact poverty levels among disabled people. Read more.