Act now to stop cruel cuts to disability support

Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government has proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support which are going through Parliament now. 

Trussell analysis shows that, if this bill passes, 440,000 disabled people and their families will be forced into severe hardship.  The Government’s own impact report says that 250,000 more people will be pushed into poverty as a result, including 50,000 children.

Already, two-thirds of people who are referred to Wandsworth Foodbank in hardship have a disability or long-term health condition. People on low pay and/or receiving inadequate social security payments simply don’t have enough money to live on.

These cuts would only make this worse.

We’re really glad to have been able to meet two of our local MPs – Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea, and Fleur Anderson, MP for Putney – a number of times recently, to say how deeply concerned we are if these cuts to disability support are voted through.

We’re grateful to all three of our local MPs for raising these concerns with colleagues, and to Marsha de Cordova and Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Tooting, for joining more than 120 Labour MPs who have put their name to an amendment to block these cuts.

Before the second reading on Tuesday 1 July – if it goes ahead and still includes cuts to disability payments – will you ask your MP to vote against these cruel cuts to disabled people’s support?

If enough MPs vote against it, we can stop this bill from becoming law, and show the UK government why they need to think again and make our social security system fit for purpose – so that everyone has enough money for essentials in the hardest of times.

You can take action now – click here to email your local MP. Thank you.

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