The Sheffield branch of campaigning organisation Disabled People Against Cuts has produced a survey which can be filled in anonymously by anyone affected by changes to benefits during the Coronavirus pandemic.
DPAC Sheffield is part of the protest about people on legacy benefits – which include income based Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support and Housing Benefits – not being eligible for the £20 uplift in Unversal Credit announced near the start of the pandemic.
Although it is believed that the UC uplift will remain after the Government’s Spring Budget, DPAC said: “Yet again the needs of disabled people have been overlooked. whether it’s DPAC’s #20More4All campaign, the Disability Benefit Consortium’s #IncreaseDisabilityBenefits or Unite Community’s #UniveralDiscredit campaign, we are all calling for the same thing.”
DPAC are calling for people to write to their MP and have produced a template letter.
You can see and fill in the DPAC Sheffield survey here.
There will also be a second Day Of Action against the possible ending of the uplift. This will take place on Monday March 1, two days before the Government’s Budget is announced.
