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We have to engage with the coming consultation, stay united and reject their shameful plans to make PIP harder to qualify. 

Looks like if you get any less than 4 points on any one activity for pip then you will lose your award.  I just get standard (which I dont agree with how its been allocated for years but too tired to bother arguing) and 2 points for 4 activities to reach my 8 points so looks like Ill be losing my award for care if the awful media are to be believed.  Never believed all this revolt stuff mps will just fall into line. Most of them awful in all the parties.

Iain Duncan-smith is on Politics Live and said almost everything supposedly being announced tomorrow would need to go through the Commons, Lords, and Committee.  He also said he would vote against changing eligibility rules for PIP.  

I couldn't sleep last night, even with two zopiclone, I am so worried. I am on benefits entirely for physical disability but I keep having thoughts that death would be easier. As a Catholic I won't do anything silly but it is worrying how all this is affecting me. 

I think something will happen and  stop reforms  people say labour have a big majority to pass the reforms  that's not going to be enough compared to the ones who don't agree like some MPs some  cabinet ministers unions charities and disabled people I believe disability news service I think they will get the reforms dropped think high court will be looking at this .

Some things I’ve noticed in recent days…Liz Kendall backtracking on some of the reforms ( fearing for her job perhaps?). Starmer and his tough words for putin( putin must be crapping himself) and finally, george Osborne putting it forward that he cared about people on welfare whilst he was in office, by not making certain changes to payments back then…what a shower of shite

I am my Partner's carer. She has borderline personality disorder, with all of the mood swings that come with it. She suffers greatly with anxiety, panic attacks and has a history of self harm and suicidal thoughts and actions. She has disc space narrowing at L5S1, retrolisthesis at L4 and L3, scoliosis, IBS and severe diverticulitis, plus liver disease, which requires daily medication. 

I love the fact that they say, they have ' a moral responsibility ' to change pip. What about the moral responsibility to actually look after those in society that can't work.

I've been trying to remain positive, but it is very difficult in the face of all this speculation - at present, that seems to be all it is - by ill-informed journalists who don't seem to have any idea what they are talking about.  They don't seem to realise that PIP is not a benefit claimed exclusively by those who cannot work and it helps many disabled people to continue working, so how would its withdrawal help disabled people back into work?  Unfortunately, most employers don't want to employ people with disabilities because they are not remunerated by the government for any sick pay they might have to find and they tend to bully those with learning disabilities, who are easy targets in the workplace.  Unless this is done very carefully, I can foresee any changes pushing up the benefits bill, rather than achieving the savings which seem to be this government's priority.  

I think Kendall is a bit myopic and obsessive about her pet project - welfare reform; it’s her baby and she’ll do what’s necessary to see it through.

I'm terrified myself I don't look too bad but I'm anything but, my GP surgery said my situation isn't likely to improve any time soon so I hope that'll help in some way

Many people who work receive benefits such as UC and PIP, many people on sickness benefits which isn't easy to receive go through hoops, many claimants with mental illness could be a danger in the workplace to themselves and others, the government haven't thought this out.

shame they don't post the same spotlight on the huge wealth inequality, they just pick the easy target the most vulnerable and poorest of our society and use them for the excuse the reason the country is broke.

Yes tomorrow I find out how much those millionaire politicians are taking off my £810 a month universal credit and LCWRA. 

A Treasury minister this morning is saying her colleagues in the party should wait for the details being published tomorrow before jumping to conclusions. The Guardian suggests 'the final proposals might not be as draconian as some of the pre-briefing has implied.'

Where and at what time is the announcement tomorrow? 

We are at a pivotal point in the history of our society. It is not about white papers or green papers, but rather the cruelty of the plans targeting, for the first time, the most vulnerable groups in society. This means that we are in a system that is ringing alarm bells, and we have reached rock bottom. I remember an old American TV series called "Charlie's Three Angels." They would fight the bad guys among the people and shoot them when necessary. Today, that series is being shown, but "Charlie's Angels" are eliminating the elderly, the retired, the sick, the disabled, and families with more than two children instead of the bad guys, with the slogan "You don't work, so you're evil... Ladies and gentlemen, we are at the bottom of the crisis." Otherwise, the question is: Is our society made up only of this segment of the retired, the elderly, and the disabled, such that these extremely harsh and degrading cuts are imposed on them alone? We should, we must, thank the real Labour MPs for standing up against these degrading measures against the most vulnerable groups among the people. They deserve our votes, not just one for fake Labour members.

Kier starmers government completely betraying their electorate here. While some changes to the welfare system are justified and would be welcome, the focus here is simply broad brush cutting, hitting the most vulnerable, in order to plug a fiscal hole.

People forget that many people who work claim benefits such as UC and PIP, these benefits people need to jump through hoops to receive these benefits.

I've barely slept and my anxiety is through the roof. I won't go quietly I'll tell you that much. They want to remove whole swathes of the population from their statistics and expect no-one to notice? Good luck with that.