Welfare Reform Bill: Mothers, carers, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence … win important changes in the Lords.
Sign to defend our
entitlement to Income Support and other benefits!
'It’s our money not the bankers’!
quotes from many claimants with personal
experience of “welfare reform”.
Stop the criminalisation of sex
workers:
Oppose the Policing and Crime Bill
International Prostitutes Collective website
Briefings on Welfare Reform Bill:
Welfare Reform Bill puts women and children in greater danger
(Black Women’s Rape
Action Project & Women Against Rape website)
Briefing (By Legal
Action for Women, Single Mothers’ Self-Defence and WinVisible, All
Women Count Website)
Model letter
to peers.
Model letter
from anti-rape campaigners.
EDM to keep Income Support
Women's Open Letter against the Welfare Reform Bill - sign here.
'Mothers, especially single mothers, will lose Income Support and be forced to "progress towards work" or take a job. So will carers of people with disabilities, mostly women, and women over 60. Traumatised victims of domestic violence will have a month before having to look for work.'
PRESS
"Time to grow emotionally"
by Sue Gerhardt, The Guardian
"In the workfare state,
poverty is always an individual failing",
The Guardian
Double blow for poor mothers
The Guardian
Letters to the press
Statements against Welfare Reform Bill:
- Guardian Letters "Crack down on fraud - and the vulnerable" by WinVisible and Single Mothers Self Defence as well as other letters
- Letter from a breastfeeding mother on income support who is being compelled to attend work-focussed interviews
- Statement by Sheila Kitzinger, breastfeeding and childbirth campaigner and writer
- Statement from the mother of a child with a disability
- Woman with mental health problems hounded by Jobcentre staff
-
Child clinical
psychologist OLIVER JAMES on the Welfare Reform Bill
requirements that parents of young children take on waged work. - From a mother who fled domestic violence
