UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities | Human Rights Watch

Yep extra advantage

On top of that many are also incapable of defending themselves. Hard to fight for your rights when you aren't even able to

Neither did anywhere else. The US and UK are just more egregious than other Western countries.

Specifically, since Thatcher and Reagan. The UK never recovered.

UK has been USA Lite for decades. Nothing new under the sun.

They want to follow in the USA footsteps.

“will protect the most vulnerable,"

It's often useful to imagine that they know what people will *think* they mean when they say things like that, but that they actually mean an entirely different "most vulnerable" group: MPs, their friends and associates.

Disabled people are easy to dismiss. We're useless, a burden, lazy etc, and of course we're different. Society isnt inclusive. It all makes us an easy group to target.

The United Kingdom government has just published draft legislation seeking to “reform” key disability-related aspects of its complex social security system. While the government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s rights.

The government’s own analysis shows that up to 800,000 people will no longer be eligible to receive PIP and that the changes could lead to 200,000 more people (50,000 of them children) in poverty by 2030. Organizations working on social security and disability rights, including Citizens Advice, the Disability Charities Consortium, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have warned of the poverty the cuts will create.