Imagine watching your loved ones, your friends, and family members, struggling with chronic disabilities. Disabilities that hinder their ability to function, to work, to truly live. These aren't imagined circumstances; this is daily reality of numerous UK citizens. Our loved ones rely on benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Carer's Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Adult Disability Payments, Universal Credit LCW, Universal Credit LCWRA, and Personal Independence Payments to simply survive. Yet, sadly, their struggles don't end there. 

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) subjects these vulnerable individuals to periodic benefits reviews. These reviews bring uncertainty and emotional turmoil, sharply escalating anxiety levels within this already marginalized group. I have witnessed the fear and instability these reviews have caused, pushing some souls to the brink of desperation, even contemplating suicide.

Such a reality raises a critical question: why are those who are already proven disabled subjected to repeated scrutiny, causing severe stress, harm, and, at times, unthinkable outcomes?

It is high time we demand changes to these practices. We need to challenge the government to safeguard their fundamental human rights. Therefore, this petition calls on the DWP to stop the practice of reviewing benefit claims of individuals suffering from chronic disabilities.

Everyone is deserving of fair treatment, especially those who are most vulnerable among us. By signing this petition, we are standing together for justice and advocating for reform in the DWP system. We urge the UK Government to start protecting its disabled citizens & treat them as human beings by abolishing benefit reviews for disabled benefit claimants (across all forms of UK disability benefits). We urge the UK Government to reform this policy within the Department for Work & Pensions so that existing disabled benefit claimants are protected from further harm. Let's make our voice heard, and let's give those battling disabilities the freedom to focus more on managing their health than managing their fear of reviews. Please, sign this petition today.

Further points & statistics which emphasises & strengthens this petition (according to disabilityrightsuk.org):

Note: Key Points at a Glance:

These powers are disproportionate.
They could be in breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Right to Privacy)
Disabled people already face persecution from the DWP, the fraud rate for disability benefits is only 0.2%, these powers are a sledgehammer to crack the tiniest nut.
Many psychiatric conditions will be made worse by the knowledge of being spied upon.
Mass trawling of bank accounts is a huge imposition upon banks and will create many false positives and security risks to anyone with a bank account, with innocent people losing payments that are essential to buying food, medication, and paying for housing.
The proposals were introduced in an unusual way evading significant scrutiny in the Commons, they are draconian and poorly evidenced.
Note: Key statistics

6.3 million Disabled people, claiming a disability benefit of some kind, could be affected by this, as well as pensioners.
This approach will recover less than 3% of the estimated annual loss to fraud and error.
If scanning over 20 million bank accounts, even a remarkably low error rate of 1% would lead to 200,000 people’s accounts being wrongly flagged to the DWP.
Estimated personal independence payment (PIP) fraud was just 0.2 percent of PIP spending in 2022-23.
The £40 million lost to PIP fraud compares with an estimated £60 million in underpayments of PIP caused by DWP error in 2022-23.
Nearly £19 billion in income-related benefits remains unclaimed annually.