Researcher and disability activist. Poverty lead @InclusionLondon. Former @ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at @SoasAnthro, PhD from @Cambridge_Uni
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Julia Modern retweeted
I’ve written to the Prime Minister, with Labour MPs to urge a reset in the Government’s approach to disability benefits.
Labour must reject the politics of scapegoating the poorest for the challenges we face.
We have a chance to rebuild trust and raise living standards.
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Join our next Campaigns Forum, where we’ll be focusing on campaigning for a London-wide Disability Action Plan and calling on the Mayor to take real action on disability equality.
Online via Zoom, 31st July 2-4pm
Register: buff.ly/QTQeUkm
ALT Join our Campaigns Forum. Topic: Making London work for Disabled people. 31st July, 2 to 4 pm. Inclusion London logo. An illustration of a group of Disabled people with different impairment types.
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My speech in Parliament tonight on why I voted against the cruel cuts to disability support.
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MPs and much of the media have spun a false narrative about tonight’s Universal Credit vote. The PIP pause has created the myth the government has fully u-turned on its disability cuts. But £2 billion is about to be pulled from the sickest and poorest people in the country.
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“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian ahead of the vote: theguardian.com/society/2025…
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This is nonsense. The impact assessment starts from an imaginary baseline incorporating reforms planned but never implemented by the previous government
In the real world, the cuts remaining in the Bill will push around 50,000 disabled people into poverty theguardian.com/society/2025…
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The Government isn't telling MPs how its disability benefit cuts will hit people already in poverty.
3/4 UC Health recipients face deprivation - future claimants will see their incomes fall, forcing disabled people deeper into poverty.
I’m voting to remove cuts from the Bill!
Hundreds of thousands of people in poverty will still lose £thousands because of the Universal Credit Bill. Julia Modern from the Disability Poverty Campaign Group explains how impact assessments hide the reality. Tell your MP to vote against the bill: inclusionlondon.org.uk/campa…
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My favourite thing about this country is that 'you can't take money from millionaires, they might leave' is considered a more valid and compelling argument than 'you can't take money from disabled people, they might die'.
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Actually around 50,000 people will be pulled into poverty by remaining cuts in Bill – this now our best estimate based on Govt’s impact assessments. @jrf_uk previously showed how DWP sleight of hand underplayed true poverty impact – same applies to this latest publication. 🧵1/3
Welfare bill u-turn in face of mounting Labour rebellion over disability benefits cuts means that 50,000 people will now be lifted out of poverty, updated impact assessment finds.
Initial version of bill would have pushed additional 250,000 into poverty.
Full story 👇🏼
theguardian.com/society/2025…
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It’s great to see so many Labour MPs sharing my Guardian story ahead of the vote. The Universal Credit cut in today’s bill is wrong full stop but it’s particularly worrying that the minimal protection the government has included is not up to scratch.
Even after two U-turns the welfare bill remains a vicious and damaging set of proposals, just as the charities say.
It should still be opposed.
theguardian.com/society/2025…
Julia Modern retweeted
I stand with disabled people across the UK and organisations representing our interests @TakingThePIP1, @Dis_PPL_Protest, @DRDisabilityReb, @DisRightsUK and @johnpringdns, in opposing cuts to UC being made through the Disability Benefits Cuts Bill today.
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We ask all MP’s to vote against the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill.
It is condemned by:
All Deaf & Disabled People’s Organisations
All Major Charities
All Human Rights orgs
All Anti Poverty orgs
The United Nations.
The DWP’s Bill is simply the wrong policy approach.
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MPs can vote today to remove the UC Health cut for future claimants from the welfare bill.
If they don't, it will push 50,000 into poverty.
75% of current UC Health recipients already face material deprivation - future claimants will be even worse off.
Vote to remove the cuts.
Here's me talking about why MPs should still vote against the universal credit bill today
Hundreds of thousands of people in poverty will still lose £thousands because of the Universal Credit Bill. Julia Modern from the Disability Poverty Campaign Group explains how impact assessments hide the reality. Tell your MP to vote against the bill: inclusionlondon.org.uk/campa…
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Disabled lives should not be 'negotiated' or conceded over. Last year, the UN highlighted that the DWP assessment process led to 600 deaths in 3 years.
The *only* conversation on disability benefits that should be happening is how to build a system that doesn't cause death.
UN rapporteur Laverne Jacobs highlights that the UK government's benefits assessments process has led to around 600 deaths in the last 3 years #CRPD24
What answer does the government have to that?
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It is significant that Disability Labour - the Labour Party’s official disabled person’s affiliate organisation - has issued a statement that the government’s concessions are insufficient and is calling on all MPs to vote against the benefits Bill on Tuesday.
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Why don't we support the Government's concessions? Because:
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP: Vote against the bill in full:
buff.ly/IIXwKuO
ALT How much would a post-2026 Disabled claimant lose, with the Government’s concessions? Diagram shows total annual income for a single over-25 claimant, with UC and PIP daily living lower rate (with no descriptor at 4 points). Existing claimant Total: £13,983. Post-2026 claimant Total: £7696.
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And for the millionth time: PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. It covers the costs of being Disabled in a society that still fails to be accessible. A two-tier system based on date of claim, not level of need, is blatant discrimination. #TakingThePIP @InclusionLondon (5/12)
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No concessions - stand your ground! Keep up the pressure and tell your MP that we will not condemn future claimants to poverty. Protecting current levels of UC and PIP is right for current claimants, and it's right for future claimants too.
Full statement:
buff.ly/SB1oITz
ALT Even with these concessions, the bill before Parliament is not a reform — it’s still rationing. There is no moral or economic case for balancing the books on the backs of Disabled people. Protecting entitlements for current recipients is the right thing to do and if it’s right for current recipients, then it has to be the right thing for future claimants too. MPs must not condemn future Disabled people to the poverty and indignity these devastating planned cuts will cause. It creates an unjust and nonsensical two-tier system. Anyone can become Disabled — and they’ll still face the same extra costs and have the same needs as existing claimants.
