Welfare Not Warfare - No PIP Cuts - Stop the attacks on Disabled people
Protest: Wednesday 11 June 
5-6pm
Carfax Tower, Oxford
called by DPAC and Oxford We Demand Change
On Wednesday 11th June, MPs will vote on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spending review.
Contained in the review are huge cuts to disability benefits that were announced in March.
It is predicted that up to 1.2 million disabled people currently in receipt of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will have that crucial lifeline withdrawn as a result of proposals to narrow the eligibility criteria. The health supplement of Universal Credit is to be frozen and cut by half for new claimants.
Even the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) state that the cuts will force another 250,000 people into poverty - 50,000 of them children
Labour ministers tell us that £5 billion cuts to disabled people’s benefits are necessary as the welfare bill is unsustainable.
These cuts follow attacks on pensioners’ winter fuel allowance and Labour’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap - the removal of which would lift 350,000 children out of poverty.
Yet Keir Starmer recently announced a huge boost to military spending, promising to invest £15 billion in Britain’s nuclear warhead programme.
The reality is that increasing poverty is the greatest threat to ordinary people in Britain.
Starmer’s retreat on the Winter Fuel Allowance shows that the government are vulnerable to pressure from below.
Join us in protest to demand Welfare Not Warfare - No PIP Cuts - Stop the disability benefit cuts
We Demand Change brings together campaigners, trade unionists and activists for welfare not warfare, against climate breakdown and to stop the far right.
Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) is for everyone who believes that disabled people should have full human rights and equality. It is for everyone who refuses to stay silent about the injustices delivered by wealthy politicians on ordinary people and their lives.