The Labour List website  has updated its list of Labour MPs who have openly said they will vote against the Pathways to Work Green Paper cuts.  There are now 27 MPs who say they will do so, up from 12 just a few days ago.

Another seven Labour MPs have expressed opposition to the cuts, but not yet said they will vote against them.

For MPs to put their heads above the parapet this long before the battle begins takes a certain amount of courage.  They will undoubtedly come under huge pressure from Labour whips to back down before a bill to change the PIP points system and cut the universal credit health element for new claims is introduced in May.

If the bill is certified as a money bill, the Lords will not be able to amend or delay it for more than a month, meaning the cuts could be on the statute book by the end of July, ready to be implemented next year.

But with 27 Labour MPs now openly rebelling and one Labour MP having started a petition against his own party’s plans, not everything is going the government’s way.

You can check if your MP is on the list here.

If they are, perhaps send them an email to offer your support for their stand. 

If not, and you haven’t already contacted them, now is the time to do so.  Getting MPs to come out against the Green Paper cuts is undoubtedly the best way of defeating them. 

There’s more on contacting your MP and many other steps you can take on our What you can do page.

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    · 1 hours ago
    I'm having a major nervous breakdown with everything happening in the world.

    My Ill health
    Might lose disability support
    Cost of living inflation
    Iran war crisis
    Russia war crisis
    Trump tariffs fueling inflation
    AI existential threat
    Migrant invasion
    Talk of conscription
    Gaza catastrophic suffering
    Ukraine suffering
    Talk of WW3

    Having extreme panic attacks all day
    There is no future
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    · 2 hours ago
    But they ALL vote For their ANNUAL  pay rises don't they, it's the only time HOP is full, IMO their salaries need cutting and their expenses restricting or scrapping 
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    · 3 hours ago
    I'm so pleased they are fighting for us, I'm severely disabled with permanent severe nerve damage to the spine and I've not been able to physically work since 2016 and for the rest of my life. These changes rachel reeves is bringing to the table is wrong. It will put me into poverty as I can't work and don't have 4 points on one daily living question only 2s 8 in total and 12 points enhanced mobility movement. It will kill me if you can stop taking from vulnerable and take from the wealthy who can afford everything.
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    · 4 hours ago
    My cousins son who worked for the NHS had desperately bad back problems and numerous operations,none which helped, he also had MH problems and did all to get help. My aunt found him dead slumped over his computer in his room,job searching, Just earlier this morning.He'd only got his pip reinstated after a fight last yr. He was 31.
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      · 2 hours ago
      @The Dogmother This is so sad. I'm sorry for your loss.

      Heartless DWP putting him through all of that.
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    · 5 hours ago
    Have all the other Labour MP's openly came out and said they are support the cuts?
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    · 5 hours ago
    With  tiny hope left the MPs against cuts that oppose them  has gone from 7 to 16 think it was it's on labour list from 22hrs ago the list has grown and  hope the rebel list grows.
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    · 10 hours ago
    There is one clear solution to this mess - tax the rich. 

    #taxtherich
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    · 10 hours ago
    and Blair but I cannot say anymore otherwise I will be accused of being a self hating type and be ousted in the same way as Corbyn was and labelled.
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    · 11 hours ago
    Just emailed the Liverpool City Region parliamentary committee. I have still not received any response from Maria Eagle and after checking the list of MPs against cuts her name not in there, very disappointing but not surprised at all either 
    Glad to see Ian Byrne & Kim Johnson speaking out and will be voting against.
    So at least we have them supporting us for our region. I will be emailing them also.
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    · 11 hours ago
    I would not hold my breath with Jess Phillips supporting us.  I have found her totally useless todate on other issues.  I wonder what alot of these MP's would have done if they did not have their fat salary, maybe join many of us down the foodbank?
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      · 4 hours ago
      @mbc127 If Jess Phillips doesn't vote against the cuts she can read a roll call of the dead who perished as a result of them.
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    · 11 hours ago
    Instead of cutting pip and other welfare, why don't the government get the people already claiming uc, who don't have disabilities back to work first, it's not right what they are doing to people on pip
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    · 12 hours ago
    and following on from my crystal ball, the new Government health initiative:

    Patients should take up smoking, at least forty a day
    Drink excessively, not just beer but preferably spirits
    Eat as much cake as possible
    Do no exercise
    Drop dead before retirement age. You have been a responsible citizen by working for 40 years, paying all your taxes (and getting nothing in return) and not bothering the State with the requirements for a pension (which won't be available anyway)
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    · 12 hours ago
    What was once a real Labour Party, now reflects the ilk of Mandelson, Starmer & Reeves. Politicians without any principles or integrity. Hence so few rebels in Labour. If 27 (or slightly higher) is the best of them, then the party &, alas, we have little chance. It's a banker that Tories & Reform support these cuts. All because they don't want to offend their wealthy backers with a relatively small tax rise on the richest, who after all enjoyed an excellent run during 14 years of Tory tax breaks. There's a choice word that perfectly sums up the likes of those I mention, but I won't taint this forum by writing it. Meantime, our fight goes on. There'll certainly be legal challenges from people with integrity, who at least care.
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    · 12 hours ago
    I've gazed into into my crystal ball, and can see the future post 2029...the next Government will again complain that there is no money left...and disability/health benefits (of any description) will be axed.  You will only receive, for a limited time, Universal Credit at the standard rate. You will have no choice but to take a menial job, on very poor wages, without much employee protection (for the Workers Rights Bill will be repealed) and still be expected to pay tax on practically everything, including food. And then, for those under the age of 40 this year, try to save for a private pension as there will no state pension for you - those over 40 will probably have to wait until after 70. And the 'I'm alright Jack' brigade will vote for this.....
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    · 18 hours ago
    How would an MP be able to live if they had 90% of their wage reduced. Yet only 27 from 400 MPs disagree with these welfare cuts.
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Anon The amount they get they’d still live quite comfortably on just 10%.  
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      · 8 hours ago
      @Anon I don’t think we’ll be able to afford goose in the first place - ha ha. 
      We need to do what we can to fight this rather than get swallowed up and give up. 
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      · 11 hours ago
      @Anon They don't care, or they don't dare vote against.

      Our goose is cooked. And if we don't get 4 points in one descriptor, we cannot eat it.
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      · 11 hours ago
      @Anon Torsten Bell, surely the replacement for Reeves, has admitted he couldn't
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    · 18 hours ago
    If these cuts are all about helping people into work, how does helping people into work by cutting their benefits help disabled pensioners who are included in the 4 point rule?

    People who have a complete NI record will not get pension credit without the severe disability allowance awarded with pip. If they don't qualify with the 4 point rule they will be left with the state pension only, no pip, no pension credit, no winter fuel allowance.

    On full state pension alone they will also lose at least a few pounds a week housing benefit because the full state pension is higher than the applicable amount for housing benefit. If they have any other (e.g. another pension) income this will be assessed and will also be deducted from their housing benefit.

    So, good citizens, you have paid tax, contributed NI, maybe you have saved towards a work or private pension, you might also have responsibly saved some capital which could also reduce your housing benefit.

    For this you will be...what? Poor, hungry, cold, homeless? Helped into work (income deducted from housing benefit)? Or just assisted to death?
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Frances But will we still get HB? 

      I’m not too concerned as even if we don’t die before, we won’t last long as pensioners if this is the way they’re going to treat us.  
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      · 11 hours ago
      @Frances I fear the last option.  
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    · 22 hours ago
    So this was my whole post 

    If these cuts are all about helping people into work, how does helping people into work by cutting their benefits help disabled pensioners who are included in the 4 point rule?

    People who have a complete NI record will not get pension credit without the severe disability allowance awarded with pip. If they don't qualify with the 4 point rule they will be left with the state pension only, no pip, no pension credit, no winter fuel allowance.

    On full state pension alone they will also lose at least a few pounds a week housing benefit because the full state pension is higher than the applicable amount for housing benefit. If they have any other (e.g. another pension) income this will be assessed and will also be deducted from their housing benefit.

    So, good citizens, you have paid tax, contributed NI, maybe you have saved towards a work or private pension, you might also have responsibly saved some capital which could also reduce your housing benefit.

    For this you will be...what? Poor, hungry, cold, homeless? Helped into work (income deducted from housing benefit)? Or just assisted to death?
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      · 4 hours ago
      @sausage belly Starmer makes Sunak look rather pleasant by comparison!
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      · 11 hours ago
      @Frances Thats the point luv. These are not about helping the disabled or pensioners etc. Its all about slashing the welfare bill primarily because Reeves has boxed herself in with her fiscal rules. Honestly Reeves and Starmer are like souless robots, their mannerisms the way they speak its very scary as there is no empathy or emotion there at all. At this point I'm pretty sure the Starmer and the labour party knows they are toast at the next election but thats four years away so they really dont care and because of the massive majority held in parliament they just push through what they want when they want regardless. The tories couldnt even have got away with this as their would be uproar ironically from labour but now in power a complete different story. And of course the tories will back this as they have been salivating to do something like this for years but always backed down because of the backlash. But because its labour its "moral". We wont forget this betrayal and rest assured Labour wont get in for many years if ever after this but that doesnt help us right now. Disgraceful leader and party
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    · 22 hours ago
    If these cuts are all about helping people into work, how does helping people into work by cutting their benefits help disabled pensioners who are included in the 4 point rule?

    People who have a complete NI record will not get pension credit without the severe disability allowance awarded with pip. If they don't qualify with the 4 point rule they will be left with the state pension only, no pip, no pension credit, no winter fuel allowance.
    If they have any other (e.g. another pension) income this will be assessed and will also be deducted from their housing benefit.
    So, good citizens, you have paid tax, contributed NI, maybe you have saved towards a work or private pension, you might also have responsibly saved some capital which could also reduce your housing benefit.

    For this you will be...what? Poor, hungry, cold, homeless? Helped into work (income deducted from housing benefit)? Or just assisted to death?
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    · 23 hours ago
    These reforms will be pushed through due to spineless Labour MPs and barbaric Conservative and Reform MPs. This will then pave the way for the next government to be even more cruel and callous with further cuts, which the public will support because they hate us anyway. What's the (expletive) point of carrying on, seriously?
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      · 2 hours ago
      @Richard
      "The squeeking wheel get the oil. The wheel that does not squeek gets no oil"

      Make a noise and you will get responses. Stay silent and nothing will change.

      Governments fear the people and the people should never fear the Government.
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    · 1 days ago
    Tories and Reform will just carry on the anti-disabled narrative, Labour, the Tories and Reform are no friend of disabled people.
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      · 2 hours ago
      @Dave Dee
      The problem with Labour inflicting such savage cuts is that it just gives the Tories licence to move even further right. Labour's cuts are even worse than those imposed by the Tories when they were in power, but now that Labour are proposing this the Tories are saying they would cut even further (they were saying something similar prior to the election but now seem to be even further emboldened). And if Labour were to say they would go as far as the Tories now say they would, the Tories would just up the ante again. As for Reform, their views on social security are positively Darwinian, so anyone voting for them thinking they would stand up for the sick and disabled would be in for a nasty shock.

      This means that all the pressure is coming from the right. The argument that we have to vote Labour to keep the Tories out looks increasingly threadbare because even if it's technically true, when Labour are this bad the choice between them and the Tories (or Reform) looks like a choice between the guillotine or a firing squad. 

      The only justification for voting Labour now is if your MP is one of those still in possession of a functioning conscience, rather than one of the right wing drones approved by Starmer, McSweeney and co.. Otherwise, the only parties who are likely to stand up for us are the Greens, the SNP, and - possibly  - the Lib Dems, though after their record as part of the coalition that certainly can't be taken for granted to say the least.
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Anon
      Yes, the tories did propose the new 'health element' of UC. However, I quote from their 2023 White paper:
      "We will set the award rate of the new UC health element at the same level as is currently awarded to those people determined to have Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity (LCWRA)."


      So Labour's decision to strip the benefit to half the original amount is all their own. Can't blame the tories for that.

      I'd vote for the tories over Labour after this horror show. At least they were upfront about their intentions. Labour smile while sliding the knife in between your ribs.
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      · 8 hours ago
      @Anon Whereabouts did I say that anyone should vote Labour again? Go ahead, I'll wait.

      Voting for those who will treat us just as bad or far worse isn't the answer either, however. As much as I doubt Green will get in, it's a much better use of your vote to put towards them than throwing it away on a party that will treat us the same or worse if you're not willing to vote for Lib Dems due to their past history. 
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      · 11 hours ago
      @Anon No disabled person nor any of their family members will ever vote Labour again.

      Ever.
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      · 17 hours ago
      @Anon So, your solution to some people losing out on their benefits is that we should ALL live on vouchers?

      Thank God nobody died and elected you as a spokesperson for the disabled.
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