Richard Michael Blaberhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/labour-disability-cuts-universal-credit. "Cast your mind back to last summer. As the nation sweated through a heatwave... ministers were trying to push through 'welfare reform' - a nice euphemism for £5bn worth of #cuts to #disability #benefits. A backbench rebellion meant that Keir #Starmer was forced to halt his overhaul of personal independence payments (PIP), but MPs voted through a brutal #universal #credit cut."
Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late
If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan