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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

MPs will soon give their final vote on the UC & PIP bill - we've joined over other 20 organisations to raise our concerns. Over 700,000 seriously ill and disabled people will lose £3000/year on average. Government must drop these cuts. Read the full briefing👇 www.ucpipbill.co.uk

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Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - Joint briefing ahead of Committee and Remaining Stages

On Wednesday 9th July, MPs will be asked to vote on amendments to the UC & PIP Bill. This briefing from over twenty organisations including Scope, the Disability Benefits Consortium, Citizens Advice, ...

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 09/07/2025

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has also flagged its concerns in writing to the UK government. Written up here by @peterwalker99.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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UN panel outs UK government on the spot over welfare bill

Committee says it has ‘credible information’ about negative impact of the legislation on disabled people

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 09/07/2025

As the #UCBill (without PIP) returns to UK Parliament for its third (and final?) reading, my post for @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... The watered-down version of the Bill will still negatively affect many with disabilities and long term health conditions. The government should scrap it.

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Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights

The UK government’s draft law to cut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Marie Tidball MP’s powerful speech shows the growing resistance, in Parliament & the country, to the Govt’s attack on disabled people. They forced this Bill through with unwritten promises of improvement. The reality remains: cuts for people who are ill are still on the table.

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Juliane Kippenberg @jkippenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our new @hrw piece on how a good EU law on the rights of people affected by corporate abuse in global supply chains is being gutted - and how EU member states want to replace it with window-dressing: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

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EU Council Turning Supply Chain Law into Window Dressing

European Union member states led by France and Germany are walking back on their commitment to protect human rights and the environment in global supply chains.

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 01/07/2025

1/15 🧵 Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage. @hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights. www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill
Monday 30th June 2025
We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty,
providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled
people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and
their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP
Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape
reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and
deserve.
At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has
remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people
is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives.
If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than
400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people
who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will
only increase in the years to follow.

This Bill has also been brought before parliament:
• Without consultation with disabled people
• Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment
outcomes
• Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun
its work
• Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these
reforms
The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny
mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new
provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be
rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or
scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading.

Signatories
Acts 435
Action for Children
Amnesty International
British Association of Social
Workers
Camphill Village Trust
Centre for Mental Health
Child Poverty Action Group
Children & Young People's Mental
Health Coalition
Children First
Citizens Advice
Community Money Advice
Crisis
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Debt Justice
Diabetes UK
Disability Benefits Consortium
Disability Law Service
Disabled People Against Cuts
End Child Poverty Coalition
Endometriosis UK
Engender
Fuel Poverty Action
Home Start
Human Rights Watch
Huntington's Disease Association
Imagine Act and Succeed
In Kind Direct
Independent Age
Independent Food Aid Network
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Kidney Care
Learning Disability Allies
Leonard Cheshire
ME Foggy Dog
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health UK
Mind
Money and Mental Health Policy
Institute
MS Society
National Autistic Society
National Children's Bureau
National Rheumatoid Arthritis
Society
National Survivor User Network
Neuroendocrine Cancer UK
New Economics Foundation
Oxfam
Parkinson's UK
Quaker Social Action
Rethink Mental Illness
Royal National Institute of Blind
People
Royal National Institute of Deaf
People
SeeAbility
Scope
Sense
Shelter
Sisters of Frida
St Mungo's
Stripy Lightbulb CIC
The Children's Society
The Food Foundation
The Poverty Alliance
The Salvation Army
Trussell
Turn2Us
Turning Point
Versus Arthritis
Voluntary Organisations Disability
Group
We Care Campaign
Whizz Kidz
Women's Budget Group
Young Lives vs Cancer
Z2K
4 in 10
Black Country Foodbank
Citizens Advice Scotland
Close the Gap
Food Plymouth
Hartlepool Foodbank
Includem
North East Child Poverty
Commission
One Parent Families Scotland
Parenting Across Scotland
Scottish Women's Budget Group
Shelter Scotland
Stay Safe East
The Scottish Pantry Network

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