Sign our letter to stop benefit cuts and fix PIP

In March the UK government announced their latest plans to reform disability support.

This includes making changes to Universal Credit (UC) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

Living with Parkinson's costs more and many people rely on these forms of financial support.

These changes will impact people living with Parkinson's and other disabled people across the UK.

Some of the changes won't even be consulted on, so the government won't hear the impact on our community, which is where we need you!

Please sign this open letter to the Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall MP, so the government knows they need to urgently rethink their harmful proposals.

Dear Minister,

The Parkinson's community is dismayed by the devastating plans you've announced to change Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Universal Credit (UC) in your latest Green Paper - Pathways to Work.

We know they will have a devastating impact on people who have unavoidable extra costs due to living with the long-term condition.

Your proposals will leave disabled people, on average £4,500 worse off. The poorest will be hardest hit!

Rather than enabling the tens of thousands of working age people with Parkinson's to work, cutting PIP will have the opposite effect. And the changes will compound the already very difficult reality of living with a debilitating and degenerative condition like Parkinson's.

We are angry that the UK government is bringing in these changes, without even giving disabled people the chance to comment on them. This lack of consultation is outrageous, especially when the UK government claims they are "putting the views and voices of disabled people and people with health conditions at the heart of everything we do".

We demand you urgently rethink your cruel and unnecessary plans and at the very least listen to the communities these cuts will impact.