Volunteer advocate (retired) for adults with a learning disability. Author of 'Benefits on Trial' and 'Austerity's Victims'.
Joined April 2014
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12 Mar 2022
Benefits on Trial exposes DWP injustice to people with a learning disability. Poverty and pressure on their mental health that only independent tribunals set right.
Buy print version (cost price) or Kindle (77p): amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
From the author of Austerity's Victims.
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
16 Sep 2025
Worth checking out @NeilCarpenter14
His books are incredible accounts of how bad actually DWP are.
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
8 Sep 2025
@NeilCarpenter14 has written 2 very affordable books about how damaging it is for those claiming disability benefits .
Here’s one
amzn.eu/d/eEeFFHd
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
1 Jul 2025
When Neil Carpenter became a volunteer advocate for people with a learning disability, the thing that shocked him most was their poverty. Anyone who thinks benefits are generous or easy to access should read his book. #WelfareReformBill #TakingThePIP
12 Mar 2022
Benefits on Trial exposes DWP injustice to people with a learning disability. Poverty and pressure on their mental health that only independent tribunals set right.
Buy print version (cost price) or Kindle (77p): amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
From the author of Austerity's Victims.
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16 May 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
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8 Apr 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ explores the strain created by the DWP on 6 people with a learning disability. Not just finances but also mental health. One suffers panic attacks. Another’s mother says, ‘There were times when I was so low that I started to wish that Jon and I weren’t here’.
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23 Mar 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’. 6 people with a learning disability battle with the DWP whose system, with built-in hurdles, is loaded against them. Rejected for PIP. Pushed deeper into relative poverty. Left below 30% of UK median household income.
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8 Mar 2025
Despite a new government in 2024, the flaws in the DWP remain. Change needed urgently: see ‘Benefits on Trial’ for evidence of how people with a learning disability are treated.
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
17 Feb 2025
Excellent book. Worth every penny
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17 Feb 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ does not aim to make a profit on sales but rather to show to as many people as possible how unfairly people with a learning disability are treated by the DWP. The print version is therefore for sale at cost price, £2.83, and the e-book version at only 77p.
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
29 Jan 2025
Highly Recommended. It's a hard read in terms of the experiences of people, but its an absolute necessity.
29 Jan 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
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29 Jan 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
25 Jan 2025
"'British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach apparently designed to ... enforcing blind compliance over a genuine concern to improve the well-being of those at the lowest levels of British society.'"
26 Mar 2022
Detailed review of Benefits on Trial, relating it to – among other things – the study of poverty in the UK made by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
ekklesia.co.uk/2022/03/22/be…
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
21 Jan 2025
There’s also two outstanding books by @NeilCarpenter14
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11 Jan 2025
‘Benefits on Trial’ explores the strain created by the DWP on 6 people with a learning disability. Not just finances but also mental health. One suffers panic attacks. Another’s mother says, ‘There were times when I was so low that I started to wish that Jon and I weren’t here’.
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
2 Jan 2025
I’m disabled, 5 years, I’ve used up savings now and am terrified of the future. As minimum wage increases, prices go up and we get left behind
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
2 Jan 2025
@NeilCarpenter14 has written two books about the challenges of our broken welfare state and financial support for the most vulnerable.
I feel we’re not moving from that trajectory, despite a change of government.
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30 Dec 2024
‘Benefits on Trial’. 6 people with a learning disability battle with the DWP whose system, with built-in hurdles, is loaded against them. Rejected for PIP. Pushed deeper into relative poverty. Left below 30% of UK median household income.
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12 Dec 2024
Despite a new government in 2024, the flaws in the DWP remain. Change needed urgently: see ‘Benefits on Trial’ for evidence of how people with a learning disability are treated.
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8 Dec 2024
Recent Review of ‘Benefits on Trial’ Extract 6
This is a must-read for anyone who cares about justice, fairness, and the well-being of society's most vulnerable. Share it widely, especially with policymakers—it’s time to demand better.
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