Speakers: Charlotte Hughes (The Poor Side of Life); Gail Ward (DPAC North East); Andy Mitchell (Unite Community); Mark Harrison (Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance); Fran Heathcote (National President, PCS Union); Dave Allan (TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee/Unite the union); Kate Summers (researcher, London School of Economics); Jay Mehta (clinical psychologist); Jennifer Jones (Sheffield DPAC) and with Paula Peters and Mark Dunk from DPAC.
6.30 – 8.30pm – Monday 22 June
Watch via:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPiFIM4pWlJaV6Ohw_ojGoQ/videos
https://www.facebook.com/pg/disabledpeopleagainstcuts/videos/
The Covid-19 outbreak prompted millions more people to apply for UC and discover the realities of dealing with the DWP and rules such as the five week wait and savings threshold. At the same time, the government announced temporary measures on issues campaigners have been pushing for, for years. The uprating of UC has not been applied to legacy benefits, creating a two tier benefits system. Disabled campaigners were alarmed by comments from Labour’s new shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions suggesting that those who work should be entitled to more from the social security system than those who don’t. The fundamental problems with UC highlighted so disparagingly in 2018 by the United Nations rapporteur on Extreme Poverty Philip Alston, have not changed and DPAC continues to demand that UC is stopped and scrapped.
This meeting hosted by DPAC for disabled campaigners and our allies will be a chance to review the situation with Universal Credit and discuss how we take the Stop and Scrap campaign forward in the current climate.
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