Keir Starmer’s Labour government has finally published its #WelfareBill ....A vote will take place in the next few weeks..

The facts:

🔴 3 million households will face cuts. (DWP)

🔴 One in five families (20%) living with a person with a disability will lose financial support. (Big Issue)

🔴 An estimated 800,000 current and future PIP recipients will lose an average of £4,500 a year (DWP)

🔴 Of the 2.69 million people claiming PIP, 510,000 are working.

Under the government’s plans, 281,000 – more than half – will lose their PIP. (DWP)

🔴 The government will freeze the health element of Universal Credit, claimed by more than two million people, at £97 a week during this parliament, and cut the rate to £50 for new claimants.

🔴 An extra 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty - including 50,000 children (DWP)

Tell your MP to

#StopTheCuts ⤵️

https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons

#KeirStarmer #RachelReeves

#LizKendall #Labour

#Greedflation 📈💰 #LabourCostOfLivingCrisis

#WelfareCuts #PIP ✂️♿️😢

#LabourAusterity ✂️♿️

#TakingThePIP ⬅️

#EnoughlsEnough ⬅️

#DisabilityRebellion ❤️

#EndAusterity ⛔️

#StopTheCuts ⛔️

#WelfareNotWarfare ✅️

#TaxTheRich ⬅️

#StarmerOut ✅️

I really can't say that I am enjoying the sunshine and hot weather we are currently having, apart from the constant worry of how I will be affected by any benefit changes or cut backs I have no energy do to anything due to a lack of healthy food and sleep. I was thinking about what is worse, winter at home wrapped in blankets to stay warm with no money for heating or the summer indoors trying to keep cool in the shade, unable to venture out in the sun not just through lack of energy but lack of the cost of going out, travel, sun cream, cold drinks or ice cream are far from what I am able to afford and that is before any cuts that will be made. I live a quiet and careful life especially when it comes to the internet with constant brightness and unwanted advertisements, so I was shocked and disappointed when this afternoon I tried to read some articles and interviews on the Guardian website when I discovered in order to read it online I must accept all advertisements and cookies or pay a monthly charge of £5. For people like myself who have struggled for years to bring up a daughter alone that is a cost I am just unable to consider. I will have to continue to get news updates as and when they come from others or a letter / email to say my benefits are being stopped. At this time I have no hope of any sort of brighter future, just more despair.

Another 2nd hand mobile handset I bought online arrived in post to replace another broken one I dropped.

Had to go buy a new charger and plug from local shop which charges 3 x the cost of one I could buy in the city.

I've spent £100 that was for my daughter's birthday.

Well had my universal credit claim review and I'd spent £9.99 on vinted and they were trying to get that classed as an income even though I'd explained this is the way I try and save money in school clothes etc for my son, wanted to know how much l'd sell in a month and how much I purchase. What does it matter? The person who did was okay didn't make me feel a certain way for once. It's unbelievable.

I’m reading the news today about free school meals, amazing, but all they’ve done is change the criteria to make sure that the people who need it most get it. They are saying it will LIFT 100,000 children out of poverty, NO IT WON’T! It just puts food in their tummy to learn better.

IT WILL NOT LIFT THEM OUT OF POVERTY.

Oh my god

I am so frustrated

Mental health is really complicated, most people take it for granted because it can't be seen or felt by an onlooker. People don't take you seriously until it's worse.

Most people push you to the extreme to ensure you never come out of the mental health struggles, instead of helping.

Well I booked a holiday for 4 days last year for this year which I paid over 12 months even though it was cheap, the universal credit told me that I had to tell them and they will see if I'll be sanctioned or not. What in the world! I've never known anything like it. It's wrong. I work full time – nothing but stress since I have been full time.

Feeling really overwhelmed at the moment with half term and hospital appointments and kids birthdays and filling in forms and applications and then to hear that the government is considering removing ehcps for children in mainstream is the icing on the cake. Taking from disabled people, children or adults is simply wrong.

Without his Ehcp my son would become a school refuser, he wouldn't have access to his 1 2 1 and his key worker. The school would simply suspend him as opposed to help him and honestly right now I feel this government do not have any of our best interests at heart. I suppose if I had money I'd be able to privately educate or home educate him but that's not a luxury I have at the moment.

This government is pushing our children deep past the poverty line and removing any accommodations and support that would otherwise make this bearable.

This has a knock on effect on my mental health and that of my children. When the future looks bleak and you already fight every day to simply survive it's easy to sink into negative thoughts and worries to spiral.

It’s month end, I got paid but still I don’t have enough money for this month's expenses and necessities. I will def go into overdraft then end up borrowing money from family or friends .

I hope I never ever meet Liz Kendall in person! For if I did I would give her a piece of my mind she would never forget.

I have just been reading through her speech from yesterday.

"Benefit reform is like the fight for women’s equality", states the work and pensions secretary.

Forgive me if I am wrong here but weren't the rights of women fought by women who were affected and concerned by those rights. Where as benefit reforms are being led by policy and decision makers.

Spot the big difference here?

Liz Kendall is an ignorant malicious individual with no real clue about life with a disability.

Exactly what planet is she on to believe that cutting benefits of the people who need extra support equates to the struggles of the suffragettes?

In short, the whole debacle was a word salad peppered with vile lies.

Would have been more truthful had she said "we are simply not prepared to tax the rich but will go ahead and take cuts from the disabled instead"!

She better hope she doesn't cross my 'Pathway' any time soon that's for sure.

I mean, just who works in those offices at Universal Credit?? Seems their hearts are made of stone. Had a UC miscalculation due to “reported earnings”. This was not me at all- it was an error on their part and my monthly allowance was cut to almost half. No physical

person to speak to and the journal entry took over 3weeks to be addressed. No apology or explanation offered just that they will pay the difference on a certain date.

But this is not the only inconvenience caused, this miscalculation also affected my other benefits as they're determined by my universal credit and now I'm having letters everywhere through the post saying I'm not eligible for Council tax reduction for example and I have an overpayment that needs to be repaid asap. Not only is this grossly unfair but causes great distress and a decline in my physical and mental health. I am hypertensive and my blood pressure shot through the roof - all because of one error that no one is even taking accountability for.

The weather has been so nice this weekend, feels like summer already but of course a warm summer normally means a colder winter. I've not had my heating on since early march but my gas bill last month was still £100 it makes no sense. I'm dreading the year ahead.