By refusing to properly consult on its plan to cut billions from disability benefits, the government is choosing not to ask questions it doesn’t want the answers to. The cuts will have a devastating impact on disabled people (and their children), sending hundreds of thousands into poverty, and many more into deeper poverty. This will result from a series of arbitrary reforms that have been designed around savings targets rather than improving outcomes, inflicting hardship on people in ways that the government doesn’t yet fully understand.
We are calling on the government to act now to protect living standards for disabled people, by reversing the decision to cut disability benefits. At the very least, the reforms should be paused so that a meaningful consultation and a more substantive impact assessment can take place.
You can find out more and read the full ‘Pathways to Poverty’ report here.
