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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2h

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What if you have no parents you can live with or if they are on benefits so need you to bring in money for your share of the rent, food etc?

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2h

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But you can't remain on your parents' claim for benefits once you are 18/19. So what do you live on whilst looking for work & how do you get help with your rent even in work? what if you can't work?

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2h

DWP breaks silence over banning one age group from claiming Universal Credit
Restricting health related component of UC to under 22s.
18-21 year olds won't be able to claim Universal Credit at all.
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Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

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Wicked MonBits @wickedmonbits.bsky.social · 7h

BUTCH LYCAN BIRTHDAY STREAM!! We are partying in Palia! Join us in-game or in chat to help celebrate! W/ FrancesTheBard & @Pinkieispan143!

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#Palia #Twitch #Birthday #GamerCouple #WLW #Nonbinary #Pansexual #LGBTQIA+ #Demisexual #InvisibleDisability #ADHD #Singularity6

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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 7h

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says | The far right | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#FarRight
#BenefitCuts
#BenefiitReform
#Populism
#Poverty

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

www.theguardian.com

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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 10h

Further grooming inquiry delays are ‘betrayal’ to survivors, senior lawyer says – Channel 4 News
www.channel4.com/news/further...

#GroomingGangs

Further grooming inquiry delays are ‘betrayal’ to survivors, senior lawyer says

After a week of chaos for the government over the national inquiry into grooming gangs, a senior lawyer has told Channel 4 News that further delays will be a 'betrayal' to victims.

www.channel4.com

Benefit levels must keep pace with rising cost of essentials | Romsey Foodbank

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 10h

Benefit levels must keep pace with rising cost of essentials | Romsey Foodbank
romsey.foodbank.org.uk/2018/05/01/b...

#Benefits
#UniversalCredit
#Poverty

romsey.foodbank.org.uk

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 11h

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery
theconversation.com/scientists-h...

#Plastic

Some plastic pollution lingers at the ocean’s surface for more than a century.

theconversation.com

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 11h

The mental toll of menopause – what women really feel

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www.msn.com/en-gb/health...

#Menopause

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 23h

That lack of empathy isn't a disability. Its just cruelty.

Watch Zack Polanski destroy the idea he's splitting the 'left vote' in 30 seconds

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski destroys the idea he's splitting the 'left vote'
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...?

#GreenParty
#ZackPolanski

Zack Polanski challenged the very basis of the corporate media question - while taking a swipe at Starmer and Farage, too

www.thecanary.co

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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 1d

Email the Chancellor: restore housing benefit to match the cost of rent.
campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/176409/...

#Rent
#HousingBenefit

Email the Chancellor: restore housing benefit to match the cost of rent | Crisis UK

Rachel Reeves must use the Autumn budget to unfreeze housing benefit. Take action now.

campaigns.crisis.org.uk

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 1d

State pensioners face having to return to work as DWP issues big update

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#DWP
#Pensioners

DWP bank account checks could be expanded to more benefits

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

DWP bank account checks alert as more benefits could be targeted - Plymouth Live
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/cost-of...

#DWP
#BankAccountChecks

The DWP will be able to directly take funds from people's bank accounts

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

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Alice @allosaurusalice.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I felt good enough to dress up more disability is a fuck

A selfie of Alice sitting at her desk wearing a brown cropped sweater with a black camisole underneath and jeans.

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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

Prince Andrew's 'secret Palace' in the UAE revealed as MP urges him to 'vanish'
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www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

#Andrew

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

6/6
View the link in desktop version to be able to read the article.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/n...

#PIP
#UC
#Disabled
#YoungAdults

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

while to process claims, even as much as a year, & then often cannot provide you with the money needed to get the support required so they end up losing any job they do get as well as it putting off any potential employers.
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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

barge poll who will never be able to work even though some will technically be capable of some work if there is sufficient adaptations (which either the employer will have to pay for so they will employ someone else instead or need Access to Work which has been underfunded & takes a very long 4/n

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

them to get a power wheelchair. Some disabled young people will never be able to work. Some will have, for example, a mental age of about 3 or other conditions that no one in their right mind would consider fit for work. Then there is a larger group who no employer will touch with the proverbial 3/n

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AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

that many disabled rely on to be able to work. Taking away PIP will force many who are in work out of work & prevent many others from trying to get work. For example many disabled rely on Motability to get a disability adapted car that will enable them to get to job interviews & work or enable 2/n

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

@greenparty.org.uk
I am one of the new members of the Green Party and I am both disabled myself & carer/parent to 3 disabled young adults. I read in a news article that Labour are planning to take away PIP & the health components of UC from young adults 'to get them into work'. PIP is a benefit 1/n

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

NASA confirms Earth now has a second “moon” — for the next 58 years
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

#Earth
#Moon
#QuasiMoon
#2ndMoon

AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/Them @autisticmumto3.bsky.social · 2d

4/4

View link in desktop version to read article
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/n...

#Disabled
#UC
#UniversalCredit
#YoungAdults
#PIP