{"id":3528,"date":"2025-05-28T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2025-05-28T21:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:31:50","slug":"stop-benefit-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"STOP BENEFIT CUTS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Festival of Death: 2.45pm Sat 31 May – Ian Murray MP\u2019s office, 31 Minto Street Edinburgh EH9 2BT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Austerity Resistance Front is fighting against deadly disability benefit cuts, by holding a Festival of Death outside Labour MP Ian Murray\u2019s office! Join us for disruptive festivities, live music, and popular outrage!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Info on location of Ian Murray MP\u2019s office below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Murray is Labour MP for Edinburgh South + Secretary of State for Scotland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Murray MP office 31 Minto street EH9 2BT \u2013 on corner with West Mayfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buses include 31, 3, 29, 37, 47, 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google maps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resist the attacks on the sick and disabled<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government is planning cruel measures like<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Freezing PIP and making it much more difficult to qualify for PIP
– Cutting benefit for the most sick claimants on Universal Credit, by abolishing the additional payment for those ” not fit to carry out work – related activity”
– Making it even more difficult to be found not fit for work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

End the Racist policy of \u2018no recourse to public funds\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, migrants often have to pay American style charges (tens of thousands of pounds) for basic NHS hospital treatments. Many migrants are also denied access to basic benefits such as disability payments, and universal credit. This forces migrants to accept lower wages in order to survive, lowering wages. This makes poor people poorer and corporate bosses richer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrap the benefits cap.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The benefits cap is a limit to the amount of benefits someone can receive. This has forced many innocent people into poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrap the two Child benefit limit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cap on child benefits means that families receive no additional universal credit benefits for their third child, onwards. CPAG estimates that removing this cap would lift 300,000 children out of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrap the \u2018Anti-Fraud\u2019 bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK government is currently passing a bill which allows the DWP to spy on benefit claimants’ bank accounts. It also allows the government to directly deduct up to 40% of someone’s pay or bank account savings  to recover benefits which have been overpaid due to administrative accidents. These fines can be issued without any kind of trial. We want this bill Scrapped!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits not Bombs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should we spend millions killing children in the Middle East, when children here are going hungry? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MORE INFO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disabled People Against Cuts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/dpac.uk.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/disabledpeopleagainstcuts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Triangle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blacktriangle11<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits and Work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.benefitsandwork.co.uk\/news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child Poverty Action Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cpag.org.uk\/news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPAG on the cuts to disability benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cpag.org.uk\/news\/cpags-response-proposed-changes-sickness-and-disability-benefits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No More Growing Up Poor \u2013 End Child Poverty Britain-wide campaign initiated by Food and Solidarity <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/foodandsolidarity.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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