In March 2025, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced before parliament a cruel plan to decrease the number of people claiming disability benefits in the UK. This was the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. The suggested changes proposed to save £5bn a year by the end of 2030 and get more people into work. However, this will have devastating effects on people with disabilities and health conditions, including here in Mile Cross where many people rely on PIP payments for travel, medication, mobility assistance and other necessary services.
A study done by the disability charity Scope found in 2024 that it costs a household with one disabled adult (or child) on average an extra £975 per month for the same quality of life as their non-disabled counterparts.
Green MP Siân Berry has taken a stand, stating that “this morally indefensible choice will have devastating consequences, and the Government should be ready to answer for it.” Your local Green councillors strongly oppose this proposal and will stand up for you wherever they can.
The Greens are the only party arguing it should be the rich, not the disabled who should get by on less