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We joined RNIB Connect Radio to recap the UK Government's Spending Review, announced last week, and what it means for blind and partially sighted people: rnib.in/csr-radio

Have concerns about the UK Government's disability benefit plans? You're not alone! Contact your MP and share your thoughts using our simple form: rnib.in/PIP25Xx

83 per cent of you said that having the option of travelling by bus is “very important”, yet our #AllAboard report highlights the barriers preventing too many people with sight loss from making the journeys they want or need to. Read more: rnib.in/bus-report

🧵We feel greatly let down by today’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. Ministers heard loud and clear that cuts to essential health and disability benefits would push many disabled people into poverty and further from work. 1/6

Read our response to the UK Government's Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, published yesterday, and find out how you can take action to ask your MP to oppose the cuts: rnib.in/uc-pip-bill

RNIB's new #AllAboard report on bus travel shows that fewer than half of blind and partially sighted people can make the journeys by bus they want or need to. Find out more and share the report: rnib.in/bus-report

For your #FridayAction, take just a couple of minutes to write to your local MP about the UK Government's health and disability benefit plans. Find out more and join over 2000 others who have already taken action: rnib.in/PIP25Xx

In case you missed it, read our response to the publication of the UK Government's Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, and find out how you can ask your MP to vote against the Bill: rnib.in/uc-pip-bill

Thanks to persistent campaigning, the UK Government has overnight announced it will make concessions over its planned cuts to disability benefits. But while the concessions will come as a relief to existing PIP claimants, this will create an unjust two-tiered system. 1/4

If you’ve heard about the UK Government making changes to its benefits plans but aren’t sure how it affects you, listen to our chat with Connect Radio where we explain what we found out today: rnib.in/46kpbGj

We’re proud to have joined 85 other charities in asking MPs to vote against the UC & PIP Bill. Blind and partially sighted people should never be pushed into poverty or lose the support they need to live independently.

If the 10 Year Health Plan for England is designed inclusively, its focus on prevention, innovation and patient empowerment could improve access to care for everyone. 📹 A feed flicks between the benches of Parliament, MP Marsha de Cordova, and Secretary of State Wes Streeting.