Consultation on the disability benefit cuts, ends 30 June 2025

[Thelnebriati]

Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper
''This consultation seeks views on the approaches government should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support.
This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 30 June 2025''

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper

Thank you for flagging this.

Thank you very much. I could’ve easily missed it

I think it says so much about MN that there are so many threads on the subject of benefits, which quickly fill up with ignorant comments from people nicely demonstrating that they know little to nothing about disability and are only there to have a go. These threads quickly turn into benefit bashing exercises. And yet when someone like the OP here has posted something important, providing a proper framework for reasoned debate and the expression of opinion, it gets all of three posts..

@Thelnebriati. Thank you for starting this thread. Hopefully more people will come to the discussion but I just wanted you to know that there is an article in the online news service - link is below. The consultation is being called a sham because the main proposal likely to pay for 85% of the projected savings - namely the cut to PIP requiring 4 points minimum in any one daily living category - is not up for discussion in the consultation document. In addition half of the proposals for other benefits likely to affect the disabled aren’t up for discussion either.

There are various organisations including Disability Rights UK and Amnesty International lobbying the government to comply with the law on consultation. The Tory proposals were thrown out as illegal and Labour severely criticised them for the way in which the consultation was designed. Now it seems Labour are following suit and not presenting an honest consultation - so much for working with disabled people and giving them a voice.

I would urge anyone on any sickness or disability benefits to look at the link below and then contact Disability Rights UK or any other disability organisation or charity they belong to, to ask what they are doing about this. Labour promised reform to benefits based on full consultation with disabled people and taking their opinion into account. This is not that.

Sorry, forgot the link.

https://apple.news/AOwMH_xQ4Rt-60MVbDqK9LQ

Thank you for the link, I wonder if there's an official way to complain about a sham consultation?

Probably judicial review if a big charity or philanthropist are prepared to take on the cost? Bloody nightmare.

Thanks to all the posters on the thread for contributing so far - I did the Tory consultation and I’ll do this one too.

It’s absolutely outrageous that only some changes are put for consultation and actually not the most significant ones. However we can still raise ANY issue with our MPs even if it’s not on the list of consultation questions.
Also someone on the radio said the other day that people shouldn’t feel obliged to comment on all questions they could only comment on some, it’s absolutely fine.

Yep, answer the questions you can - if you feel like a question isn't relevant to PIP, say that!

Yes, I felt that lots of the questions were about help going back to work or in the workplace
I did comment that the 4 points change to daily living would affect a lot of claimants with carer allowance, but otherwise only answered where it was relevant to me.