Where's the Benefit?

Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

A local authority’s actions helped drive a disabled woman to attempt to take her own life, after it imposed an “impossible” two-week deadline upon her as part of a discriminatory social care assessment process.
https://t.co/qVFtIOyfbq

[D.A.N. the disabled people's Direct Action Network @DAN_Disabled]

Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence
@johnpringdns https://t.co/zApcoS2DLg via @johnpringdns

[Colin Baker @ColinBaker28349]

New government figures show key policy at heart of disability employment strategy ‘will not work’ https://t.co/q6kvQOgQbl via @johnpringdns

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

New unpublished research has exposed the impact of “shocking and eye-opening” levels of bullying and systematic mistakes on disabled people forced to rely on the universal credit working-age benefits system.
https://t.co/att92GvDxV

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

New research exposes ‘shocking and eye-opening’ levels of bullying of universal credit claimants
@InclusionScot @Dis_PPL_Protest @DPACSheffield @StephenCTimms
#UniversalCredit
https://t.co/4HPjDzedYK

[Where's the Benefit? @wheresbenefit]

@StephenNolan @BBCSounds During economic downturns it’s usually the Motability scheme that keeps the car industry afloat; you wanna crash multiple car companies just to stick it to the cripples?

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

I’m really concerned about the impact of the rise in employers’ NICs on GP surgeries – I’ve heard from several who say it will be devastating for patient care. Along with other @theGreenParty MPs I’ve written to the Chancellor urging her to rethink the rise.

[Transform Politics 🦋 @tf_politics]

One of the women in this photo has been on TV expressing her deep disappointment in Starmer.

She will be speaking for many.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

PS This isn't a new thought we (MSE) presented a report in 2017 called "Sharper teeth: the need for ombudsman reform" it's here https://t.co/YbUhwc53ud

It was well received and discussed in parliament but ultimately no action

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Promising one thing in Opposition and doing the opposite in government is a betrayal.

[Dr Sally Witcher @SalWitcher]

Hospitals under extreme pressure, people getting sick with all manner of airborne infections and @scotgovhealth does absolutely nothing. It really doesn't have to be this way. I truly despair of the way the NHS & public health is being destroyed when tools exist to prevent it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

These tweets increasingly feel so disconnected from reality.

It has rings weirdly of the last gasps of the Tory government...

[Red 'til I'm Dead @suziegeewizz]

Love that Keir Starmer sees older women as an unaffordable burden on the state. Women who've slogged all their lives, raised families, and whose pension pots are already on average much less than men's, now they've served their purpose and helped elect him, they can fvck off.

[Where's the Benefit? @wheresbenefit]

This is what Reform wants to replace the NHS with.

[Paula Stokes @pstokesbooks]

My mom used to work for a different insurance company and I remember her coming home crying because she got in trouble for not denying enough claims. She got fired for not "meeting quota" after a couple of months.

[Ava-Santina @AvaSantina]

Labour MP Jas Athwal in the commons asks what the government is doing to tackle health inequalities and disparities in the workplace.

Minister could have suggested Athwal starts with the flats he rents with black mould and ant infestations

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Having spoken to a number of WASPI women in the last 24 hours, they will neither forget nor forgive those Labour politicians who were happy to pose for photos and pledged support when in opposition, only to betray the promises they made as soon as they entered government.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Can we just take a moment to reflect on this horrifying statistic…

Out of all the people currently in hospital with COVID in Wales, at least 72% of them were admitted for another reason and were infected with Covid SINCE THEY WERE ADMITTED.

Why is nothing done to prevent this?

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Labour’s Branch Office Manager in Scotland helpfully confirming, once again, that he holds no sway over Labour in London.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

2020: He’s not lying, the very idea is insane
2022: He was lying to scum who don’t matter and deserved it, and that was good
2024: He’s lying to everyone to win the election, and that’s smart and savvy
Also 2024: He has an honesty problem