🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨
The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will ‘deepen the signs of regression’ in disabled people’s human rights. UN letter to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
“The Committee has received credible information indicating that if approved, the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill will deepen the signs of regression that the Committee indicated in its 2024 Report on the follow-up to the inquiry.”
Disabled People’s Organisations Forum England, UK DDPO CRDP Monitoring Coalition, Disabled People Against Cuts, Disability Rebellion, Crips Against Cuts, Amnesty International UK contacted the UN with their grave concerns backed up with evidence. The UN has today responded by writing to the UK Government about these attacks on our rights.
Even after concessions and the dropping of Clause 5 our concerns remain. Please note the UN has been given a timeframe for a response which conflicts with Government plans to designate this a money bill, meaning it should not be designated as such.
The committee seeks answers on:
· the lack of full impact assessments.
· the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people.
· the risk of increasing poverty rate.
· the inadequacy of the public consultation.
· the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.
· the lack of a limited scrutiny because of its designation as a money bill.
· public statements by politicians and authorities portraying disabled people as fraudulent or burdens on society including debates around the Terminally Ill Adults Bill.
· the extension of financial surveillance and policing powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.
The Committee will examine the responses and all credible information during its thirty-third session, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 26 August 2025.
GM Disabled People's Panel 