URGENT: Ask your MP to stop the PIP cuts
Freedom of Information data shows that the conditions most likely to lose support include cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, MS, and lung diseases. These are serious, life-altering conditions, not minor or short-term illnesses.
Removing support will push people into poverty, damage physical and mental health, and increase pressure on the NHS and social care system.
Contact your MP today and ask them to sign the amendment to stop these harmful reforms. Find your MP here:
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The vote is coming. We must act now.
Template Letters:
Dear MP
I’m writing to urge you to continue opposing the welfare reform bill, despite the government’s partial U-turn.
Saying current PIP claimants won’t be affected misses the point. This creates a cruel two-tier system. If someone is diagnosed with a condition like cancer now, they get support. If it happens a week after the bill passes, they may get nothing. That isn’t fair or humane.
While much of the focus has rightly been on PIP, the planned merging of PIP with the disability element of Universal Credit is equally damaging. It means people risk losing their entire income, not just part of it. On top of that, PIP is a gateway to the UC disability element, yet the two have very different eligibility criteria. That’s a recipe for disaster.
And then there’s the plan to deny any support to disabled people under 22. That is horrifying. Families of disabled young people already face massive challenges. Expecting them to fully support adult children for longer just adds more pressure.
These changes have been made without proper consultation or co-production, and it shows.
If the government genuinely wants to support disabled people into work, it needs to fix Access to Work, which is chronically underfunded. People are waiting six months to a year for assessments. It also needs to address employer attitudes, provide real incentives, and enforce accessibility and reasonable adjustments.
Simply removing our financial support does not magically cure us.
It is patronising to keep implying disabled people lack motivation to work when the real barriers are inaccessible workplaces and unsupportive employers.
Please stand firm. This bill is cruel, illogical and unjust, and it must be opposed.
Yours sincerely
Your Name
Letter Two:
Dear MP
I am writing to urge you to sign the amendment opposing the proposed welfare reforms. The cuts are inhumane, ill-conceived, and will devastate lives.
Even if the number of PIP claimants in your constituency does not exceed your majority, as it does in some areas, it still represents a significant portion of your electorate, many of whom already feel disillusioned with Labour.
This bill is nonsensical and dangerous:
– Freedom of Information data suggests around 50% of current PIP claimants stand to lose their entitlement.
– Many of those people work and use PIP to cover the additional costs that come with working while disabled.
– Access to Work has already been severely cut, and further reductions are rumoured.
– If you remove our financial support, many of us will no longer be able to pay for the care we need. That cost will fall back on the government.
– Without the right support, people’s physical and mental health will worsen. The knock-on effects for the NHS and social care will be significant and more expensive in the long run.
– The groups likely to lose support include people with cancer, chronic pain, arthritis and other serious physical conditions. These are not minor or “invisible” conditions, they are life-altering and often degenerative.
You have a choice. Stand with disabled people and vote for the amendment.
Kind regards
Your Name