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The Draft Disability Strategy is woefully inadequate.
Executive Ministers must work with Deaf and Disabled people to create a strategy that will truly improve our lives.
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- Replying to @ashcowburn and @McKeeverGrainneIt will cause pain is very much an understatement. It will cause destitution and death. Time the media called this out.
- DPAC Northern Ireland to Join Mass Lobby Against Disability Benefit Cuts at Westminster bit.ly/4jddh3H Disabled People Against Cuts Northern Ireland (DPAC NI) will be proudly representing our community at Westminster.
- #WelfareNotWarfare These figures by @carlalockhart are wrong, the @DWPgovuk's own fraud statistics shows PIP fraud at 0.2%. This feeds into the wider rhetoric that PIPs is easy money. It creates a stigma towards disabled people in order to save money. This is dangerous."I don't believe we can continue to fund those who are not deserving." @carlalockhart tells @MarkCarruthers7 that a review of disability payments needs to crack down on fraud...
00:00 - 👇🏽Myth busting about the rationale for these cuts is essential. Spending on benefits is not out of control. The welfare state is not collapsing. @UKLabour has chosen to target disabled people to make savings knowing it will drive many into poverty and destitution. ShamefulAhead of Liz Kendall’s speech today – a quick thread on why the welfare state isn’t collapsing and why deep cuts to disability benefits aren’t the answer. (1/9)
- DPAC Northern Ireland stood strong at the Westminster Mass Lobby, demanding action against devastating welfare cuts! Read our full report here: bit.ly/4dDElbw #DPACNI #WelfareCuts #DisabilityRights #MassLobbyAgainstBenefitCuts
- Here's proof that when ministers say they had to cut disability benefits cos 'welfare spending' was spiralling out of control, they are lying. Even before the cuts, it was stable. It's an answer to a Q from LibDem @MartinWrigley by minister @stephenctimms: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
- #WelfareNotWelfare Yesterday @MrNishKumar was at Westminster for @PodSaveTheUK. He interviewed DPAC NI's @castleDD at the Mass Lobby with @Dis_PPL_Protest ✊️ You can listen back below.
- 10,000 reached, but they can reach higher. Get signing. Solidarity ✊️ #WelfareNotWarfareLess than 200 signatures to go until we hit the first target of 10,000 signatures which triggers a governmental response. This is just the beginning of the fightback to protect #DisabilityBenefits from cuts. We need to keep going #DisabilityRebellion petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7215…
- Labour - Cruel by Design #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityBenefits #PIPs #Disability #Disabled #DisabledLife
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