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Ayaz Manji

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Campaigner, policy person, and welfare rights adviser. Currently Policy Manager (Disability) @TrussellUK. He/him

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RT @Z2K_trust: 1/5: We're very worried that the Timms Review of PIP promised by the government will fall far short of genuine coproductionđź§µ.
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RT @Z2K_trust: The final Commons stages of the UC & PIP bill are tomorrow. We told @DrFrancesRyan @guardian that we have real fears that m….
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(Their full briefing includes an excellent overview of the changes in the bill: .
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As well as analysis from @NEF and @jrf_uk - important to see the policy experts at the House of Commons library draw attention to the fact that the poverty assessments for the UC & PIP Bill, bizarrely include the impact of not making the previous government's cuts. 👇
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RT @IainKPorter: Actually around 50,000 people will be pulled into poverty by remaining cuts in Bill – this now our best estimate based on….
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RT @jen_jen_clark: It is so important to listen to wider voices like that of @PollardTom to understand the impact of the #UCHealth Bill as….
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RT @CitizensAdvice: The Universal Credit (UC) and Personal Independence Payment bill has its third reading on Wednesday. Cuts to UC health….
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RT @PollardTom: This is nonsense. The impact assessment starts from an imaginary baseline incorporating reforms planned but never implement….
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Quick caveats that this doesn't include government amendments, and it also links together connected or 'consequential' amendments. All in all there about 70 on the amendment paper, but more like 30 things that are MPs are trying to achieve through amendments.
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For anyone campaigning on the UC & PIP Bill (or just trying to work out what's happening with it), I've pulled together a quick visualisation of the amendments which MPs *might* have a chance to vote on this Wednesday.
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RT @scope: ✂ The Universal Credit (UC) and PIP Bill no longer includes PIP. And it's thanks to all who united against cuts to disability b….
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RT @KirstySNP: I have put in a number of amendments to the UC Bill removing both the constant conditionality and the requirement for the di….
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RT @RITB_: @Shrink_at_Large .@Dis_PPL_Protest .@johnpringdns .These are crucial because it would target mental illness significantly as wel….
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RT @PollardTom: “What’s going on in the benefits system is symptomatic of an ill society where there is poor health, poor public services &….
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RT @DrFrancesRyan: “As a community, we’ve been put through a mental and physical wringer. But we carry on fighting because it’s our lifelin….
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RT @TrussellUK: We applaud the power of disabled people, food banks and MPs, like Dr Marie Tidball, who have tirelessly used their voices t….
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RT @scope: 🚨 The government's Universal Credit (UC) and PIP bill was passed yesterday evening. Plans to cut disability benefits are still….
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RT @duncanshrubsole: Yes it's no way to run a government to effectively gut your own Bill. But more importantly it's no way to run a Govern….
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RT @BenClaimant: Just on a personal note, for the last few months I have been with disability campaigners, politicians and supporters who h….
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RT @Jamestaylor2: Well…this whole thing could have been avoided if Government consulted properly in the first place. Months of uncertainty….
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