Online meeting
Date: Sunday 18 February 2024
Time: 3 – 5pm
Zoom Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83785735292?pwd=YjGm5MtbQiYOv1p6a9i1nClm3JrgQA.1
Meeting ID: 837 8573 5292
Passcode: 709981
British Sign Language Interpretation and palantypists provided
Speakers: Bill Scott, Senior Policy Advisor, Inclusion Scotland; Andy Mitchell (@BenClaimant), Unite the union; Michael Erhardt, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Disability Rights UK; Ellen Clifford, Disabled People Against Cuts and author of The War on Disabled People; La Toya Grant, DPAC Deaf group.
This meeting will go through the key changes currently planned for the social security system affecting Deaf and disabled people.
Topics covered will include:
- Plans to tighten the Work Capability Assessment. Key groups of people affected by this will be those with mobility impairments or those at risk of harming themselves and others if forced to engage in work search activity.
- Plans outlined in Transforming Support: the health and disability white paper published in March 2023. These include scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and replacing Employment and Support Allowance/Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and Work–Related Activity with a new Universal Credit health component that is dependent on eligibility for Personal Independence Payment.
- The roll out of in-work conditionality. This disproportionately impacts on disabled workers and women.
- How Deaf and Disabled campaigners will be taking these plans and the harm they will cause to the United Nations Disability Committee in March.
There will also be a campaigns meeting in Parliament on Monday 19 February to explore how we can build a united resistance against these plans to punish hundreds of thousands of poor and disadvantaged people.
The meeting is open to all those who want to attend. Please let your MP know about the meeting and ask them to come along.