The government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill represents billions of pounds worth of cuts to disabled people’s benefits. If it passes, it will send hundreds of thousands of disabled people (and their children) into poverty. One of those people is Anita*. Without disability benefits, Anita wouldn’t be able to manage her essential costs. If the green paper proposals come into effect, we expect her to be at least £8,100 worse off each year and plunged into poverty.
Read Anita’s story, in the first Citizens Advice blog, explaining the disability cuts bill and why we’re asking MPs to vote against it.