Artist, Art Activism, Parent Carer, #UnpaidCarer, PhD Student- Mother Carers @klfox.bsky.social
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kerry fox retweeted
Disability News Service has investigated animations circulating on social media that portray PIP claimants as fraudsters.
Some have attracted hundreds of thousands of views.
Meanwhile, disabled creators are left challenging the same misinformation again and again.
PIP is not an unemployment benefit. People can work and receive it.
Criticising welfare policy is legitimate. Spreading misleading stereotypes about disabled people is something else entirely.
Social media platforms need to take their responsibilities seriously.
Source: disabilitynewsservice.com/in…
#PIP #DisabilityRights #DisabilityMisinformation #DWP #WelfareReform
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This is why disabled people fear going into hospital
A 37-year-old man with a severe muscle-wasting disease has been trapped in a hospital for more than 13 months because of a dispute over his care.
Ravi Mehta has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and used to receive NHS funding that allowed him to hire his own carers and to live at home.
Now that has been taken away from him, and he is threatened with being put in a care home.
#Duchenne #NHS #Care #Channel4News #C4News
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Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn.
It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you.
With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year.
Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?
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@instagram , @facebook and @TikTokSupport fail to act on animations spreading hate and lies about PIP claimants disabilitynewsservice.com/in… via @johnpringdns
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#Channel4
#TheExperiment
Work shy
Scrounger
Not Productive
Useless Eaters
All language used in the media in Nazi Germany
Language used in the UK by the media since 2010…..
#TheExperiment
The public are being fed in the media for the past 16 years & the same language against disabled people that the Nazis used.
Scrounger
Work - Shy
Useless Eaters
Not Productive
We live in an increased hostile environment because of it
kerry fox retweeted
You know your society is fucked when a parking space can earn more per hour than the minimum wage.
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As they lie and attack disabled people using lies, hate speech, terrifying disabled people and their families
46% families disabled child use foodbanks
78% with families with a disabled member
Meanwhile Amazon has tax credit to remove future payments by £7.6 m
Like oil companies
We pay for every building or oil rig, that's built to make them more profits
They pay Nothing
#r4today #PIP #DisabilityJustice
theguardian.com/technology/2…
metro.co.uk/2026/10/21/half-…
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Who provides the care NOW, Helen? Millions of unpaid carers, some doing 100+ hours a week for £86.45. Others get nothing.
You call funded care “monumentally expensive”, yet families pay with their health, careers and independence.
Then you label them “economically inactive”.
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Glad to see this story on the first page of the Google news section when searching for 'Times Welfare Inquiry'. It's vital that @thetimes and @frasernelson stop ignoring this crucial aspect of social security reform:
disabilitynewsservice.com/th…
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@Helen_Whately
Minister of State for Care during COVID
Complicit in the deaths of 43,000 people in care homes.
Now wanting to cut welfare which will result in even more deaths of the most vulnerable in society.
"Now is the time of monsters"
kerry fox retweeted
Can we try and get this pushed please Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK
Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awareness of visible and hidden disabilities.
@TheMeldrew
@YorkDisability @hewitson10 @relish_hendy @SueJonesSays @RITB_ @ChirpyChet @Mikeo56977865 @ContorSien1527 @DpacLeeds @BuDs_UK @Dis_PPL_Protest
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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'There have been too many deaths at the hands of the welfare system. It's time to end the violence' bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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The Times has joined a long list of organisations and individuals that are ignoring the risks posed by cuts and reforms to the social security system for disabled people who rely on benefits to survive.
disabilitynewsservice.com/th…
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👀 at the welfare figures
WA Incapacity benefits stable at 1% GDP (& stable till 2030)
Total Welfare spend
Stable 11% GDP (& till 2030)
Why do Labour Conservatives Greens Lib Dem's Reform Restore
all want to reduce the Welfare Bill?
It's a lie that it's spiralling out of control or ballooning
An Urban myth put out by IFS:
WELFARE SPEND IS NOT BALLOONING
STABLE
Total Welfare spend
Stable 11% GDP (& till 2030)
Working Age (WA)
Economic Inactivity
Stable 10M
for 30 years 1995-2024
& down in last decade
2011 23.6%
2024 21.2%
PIP is not an out of work benefit, 1/5 those on PIP work
PIP Fraud rate before 2020:
Low slow rising
2016/17 1.4%
2017/18 1.5%
2018/19 1.6%
Rather than increasing as Media/ MPs would have you believe when online/phone assessments began in 2020
Lower Now!
2024 0.1%
2025 0.4%
2026 1.4%
x.com/sallybourliaka…
“The welfare system isn’t helping people who are struggling with their mental health and neurodiversity”
Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately defends Conservative policies to encourage young people into work
#BBCLauraK
bbc.co.uk/news/live/c64gv8k2…
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2021 Helen Whately said,
"It's truly, truly sad that 23,000 residents have died and 400 social care staff, I won't shy away from that."
ONS said it was more than 30,000 residents, and over 400 workers
It was under her, that elderly were returned to care home's, without testing
#HelenWhately #Welfare #BBClaurak
liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv/…
news.sky.com/story/coronavir…
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“One of the saddest things about unpaid caring. You can spend your entire adult life making sure somebody else isn’t isolated, only to find that you’ve become isolated yourself”
chuffin-ell.com/post/the-lon…