disability benefits

'I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?'
DWP minister Stephen Timms
Letters

'I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?'

One Big Issue reader says they are still concerned about what reforms the government may make to personal independence payment (PIP) after the Timms Review has concluded.
Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here's why it would push up poverty
Andy Burnham
Disability benefits

Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here's why it would push up poverty

Timms Review recommends changes to 'dehumanising' PIP assessment process
stephen timms
Disability benefits

Timms Review recommends changes to 'dehumanising' PIP assessment process

Access to Work cuts lock disabled actor out of her career: 'Will I ever be on stage again?'
Social Justice

Access to Work cuts lock disabled actor out of her career: 'Will I ever be on stage again?'

PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds
Disability benefits

PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds

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Four ways the government could change PIP for the better
dwp
Ross Barrett

Four ways the government could change PIP for the better

What's going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here's how to have your say
stephen timms
Benefits

What's going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here's how to have your say

The Timms Review must stop people with terminal illness being forced to reapply for PIP 
Holding hands on hospital bed
Becca Stacey

The Timms Review must stop people with terminal illness being forced to reapply for PIP 

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'
Young people walking in the street
Youth unemployment

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'

Letters: Cutting Access to Work is impractical and cruel
Letters

Letters: Cutting Access to Work is impractical and cruel

Meet the man tasked with fixing youth unemployment: 'I see a generation that is trying hard'
Big Issue Recruit's Catherine Parsons interviewing Alan Milburn.
Catherine Parsons

Meet the man tasked with fixing youth unemployment: 'I see a generation that is trying hard'

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne slams 'savagery' of government cuts to Access To Work payments
Jack Thorne at the BPG Awards 2026
Access To Work

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne slams 'savagery' of government cuts to Access To Work payments

Why disabled people are worried that the Timms Review could be used as a cover for PIP cuts
DWP minister Stephen Timms
Mikey Erhardt

Why disabled people are worried that the Timms Review could be used as a cover for PIP cuts

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: 'This opportunity cannot be wasted'
stephen timms
Disability benefits

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: 'This opportunity cannot be wasted'

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work, Citizens Advice warns
Disability benefits

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work, Citizens Advice warns

Disability benefit claimants at risk of poverty because of 'poor service' from DWP, MPs warn
Pat McFadden, work and pensions secretary. Image: House of Commons/ Flickr
Poverty

Disability benefit claimants at risk of poverty because of 'poor service' from DWP, MPs warn

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?
Disabled sign
Mikey Erhardt

Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system
Chancellor Rachel Reeves and secretary of state for health and social care Wes Streeting.
Arun Veerappan

Targeting people with mental health conditions will not fix the welfare system

Reeves' budget does nothing for families with disabled children like mine. I dread the future
Lorraine Griffin and her sons Sam and Ben.
Lorraine Griffin

Reeves' budget does nothing for families with disabled children like mine. I dread the future

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Benefit fraud

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?

Scotland's social security system treated me better as a disabled person. DWP must take notes
Caroline Cawley is a co-production partner at Turn2Us.
Caroline Cawley

Scotland's social security system treated me better as a disabled person. DWP must take notes

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This metal song perfectly sums up the anger felt by disabled people towards the benefits system
pupil slicer members
Music

This metal song perfectly sums up the anger felt by disabled people towards the benefits system

Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid benefit cuts and rising living costs
Sex work

Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid benefit cuts and rising living costs

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here's how to overhaul it
New work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden in the House of Commons
Benefits

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here's how to overhaul it

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Keir Starmer
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear