{"id":71033,"date":"2025-06-18T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=71033"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:48:17","slug":"governments-proposed-cuts-to-disability-benefits-will-be-devastating-for-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/press-releases\/welfare\/governments-proposed-cuts-to-disability-benefits-will-be-devastating-for-disabled-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Government\u2019s proposed cuts to disability benefits will be devastating for disabled people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>18 June 2025<\/strong> &#8211; Responding to the government&#8217;s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, Sense, the national disability charity, says the proposed cuts to disability benefits will have &#8220;devastating consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Watson-O\u2019Neill, Chief Executive of the disability charity Sense, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s proposed cuts to disability benefits will have devastating consequences for disabled people across the country &#8211; pushing thousands further into poverty, hardship, and isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany disabled people&nbsp;already find themselves in debt because current benefits don\u2019t stretch far enough. Cutting support further at a time when the cost of living remains high is not only unjust \u2014 it is cruel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe urge MPs to listen to disabled people and reject this legislation. Our welfare system should support those who need it most \u2014 not abandon them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sense, which supports disabled people with complex needs, has raised particular concern over the proposed removal of the Limited Capability for Work or Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) element of Universal Credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Watson-O\u2019Neill added:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re especially alarmed by plans to cut the Universal Credit uplift for those with the greatest barriers to work. Many of the disabled people and families we support have told us they\u2019re frightened \u2014 uncertain how they\u2019ll afford food, heating, or other basic needs without this vital support. This comes on top of worrying changes to PIP, which we&#8217;ve heard from many of our disabled staff and community helps them to stay in work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"wp-block  box    is-style-textured-grey-tint-10\">    <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Sense&#8217;s media team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please get in touch with the Sense media team on <a href=\"mailto:mediaenquiries@sense.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mediaenquiries@sense.org.uk<\/a> or call 0203 833 0611.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 June 2025 &#8211; Sense responds to the government&#8217;s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":70995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[],"display_author":[],"class_list":["post-71033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welfare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71033"},{"taxonomy":"display_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display_author?post=71033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}