Can you give evidence of the effect of PIP cuts?

Details: Published: 07 April 2025

Benefits and Work has created a brief, anonymous questionnaire about the PIP cuts in which your answers will immediately be published online. The one page survey is for anyone who currently gets PIP daily living without scoring any 4 point descriptors.

The purpose is to provide some of the evidence about who the cuts will affect and how, which the government is desperately trying to keep hidden from the public.

So please consider completing the survey. It will allow, campaigners, researchers, journalists, MPs and ordinary members of the public to get a better understanding of who Labour is targeting as it tries to rush through these savage cuts.

In the survey you are asked not to give your real name or any name you routinely use online, in order to protect your privacy as your answers will be immediately published online.

There's more information and a link to the survey here.

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Anon · 1 hours ago
@Steve Donnison and the team at Benefits and Work, thank you so much for fighting for us, defending us, and informing us. We are all immensely grateful to have you.
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MJ · 1 hours ago
Disability groups 'stepping back' over benefit cuts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2ejxpl17o
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Dave Dee · 2 hours ago
That these cuts and changes are going to negatively effect disabled people how on earth can Labour justify it given the fact that any changes to incapacity/disability benefits would need to align itself with the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equalities Act 2010.
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Sam · 3 hours ago
What about the massive amount of people that never claimed pip but get lcwra and won't under the pip as a gateway benefit?
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  Scorpion · 1 hours ago
  
  @Sam Thank you for saving me time, as I was exactly going to say the same.
  
  People who are only on LCWRA would be the ones who would be hit hardest, yet nobody is addressing this.
  
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  Carbow32 · 2 hours ago
  
  @Sam Yes I am one of those. Possibly entitled to PIP (as it stands now) but can't face even phoning them for an application form
  
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Gingin · 3 hours ago
MPs on our side want your responses to this before 14th April:

https://appgpovertyinequality.org.uk/home-page/appg-on-poverty-and-inequality-call-for-evidence-inquiry-into-the-disproportionate-impact-of-poverty-and-inequality-on-disabled-people/
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Gingin · 4 hours ago
I’ll definitely respond to this survey today. I had a 2nd response from an All Party Parliamentary Group today after sending a follow up email, this was the group for Poverty and Inequality. Be encouraged, some MPs are definitely on our side. The response is below:

Thank you so much for your email and please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.

Thank you for sharing your story and I'm so sorry to hear about the impact that the proposals will have on you and your family. I will pass on your original email to the APPG officers. We are currently planning a response to what the government has proposed in the green paper. The proposals were discussed at our EGM meeting last week and the room was unanimous in its condemnation for the proposals.

We are also holding an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of poverty and inequality on disabled people. The call for evidence is currently open and closes on Monday 14 April.

I will be in-touch with you with regards to the APPG's plans to respond to the green paper publicly.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
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  DJ · 1 hours ago
  
  @Gingin Hi Gingin
  
  Thank you for sharing
  
  Your energy is remarkable.
  
  Your knowledge is remarkable.
  
  Your passion is remarkable.
  
  YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT THERE ARE A LOT OF MP'S WHO ARE TOTALLY AGAINST THESE PROPOSALS!
  
  Those MP's who are against, the brutality of these reforms, to my knowledge are the more mature, and the most experienced serving MP's. Who HAVE SEEN historically the impact that previous governments, wrath and scapegoating have done to the vulnerable in society and as such KNOW that these proposals for welfare reform, in modern day history perhaps the most BRUTAL yet! They ALSO know historically the amount of harm and deaths that in the past occurred.
  
  Those MP's are DEFINITELY on our side. Those MP's are the ones who have seen with their own eyes in their own communities just how utterly barbaric, unlawful and inhumane this is.
  
  I will look up the APPG
  
  Really helpful
  
  Thank you
  
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Am · 4 hours ago
I currently get 8 points in one category and 2 in several others. However I am very worried that I will be unfairly reassessed in future (I have already lost out for one 4 year period where an assessor made errors) or that they may change the points so that prompting no longer gets points and they change my 8 to 4, then I'll get nothing and lose LCWRA aswell. I am currently experiencing a mental health crisis because of all this, I have started having panic attacks at home again after several years of only having them outside. I am sinking into depression and every day I wake up with uncontrollable anxiety. They need to know that even just the possibility of these changes is causing harm, let alone what it will do to people who lose everything without recourse to appeal. I'm scared for all of us.
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