Public and Commercial Services Union

The following people were the original signatories of the welfare for all statement.

• Mark Serwotka - general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
• Paul Kenny - general secretary of the GMB union
• Sally Hunt – general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU)
• Jeremy Dear - general secretary of National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
• John Corey - general secretary of the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA)
• Katie Curtis – national women's officer, National Union of Students (NUS)
• Ama Uzowuru - vice president welfare, National Union of Students (NUS)
• Colin Hampton - National Unemployed Centres Combine
• Eileen Devaney - national co-ordinator of the UK Coalition Against Poverty
• Iman Achara – director of British Black Anti-Poverty Network
• Peter Kelly - director of The Poverty Alliance Scotland
• Frances Dowds – director of the Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network
• Miranda Evans - policy and public affairs manager at Disability Wales
• Dr Chris Ford MB ChB MRCP FRC GP - GP in North West London and the clinical director of substance misuse management in General Practice.
• Tony Rhodes and Paula Hanson - co-founders of The National Carers Forum
• Cheryl Dobbinson, Frances Kelly, Iain MacNeil, Rosemary O’Neill, Paul Tubby and Philippa Wood – Carer Watch
• Chris Steel, Jean Milne and Tony Dennis - Carers Voices
• Kelly Smith – secretary of the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers
• Claudia Rubin – head of policy and communications at Release
• Stephen Fisher - chairman of trustees, Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Action
• Kim Sparrow - Single Mothers’ Self Defence
• Claire Glasman - WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities)
• Niall Cooper - Church Action on Poverty and Get Fair Coalition
• Adrian Sinfield - professor emeritus in Social Policy, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Ruth Lister CBE - professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University
• Mark Donne - director of the Fair Pay Network
• Steve Donnison and Holiday Whitehead - co-directors of Benefits and Work
• Neal Lawson - chair of Compass
• Andrew Fisher – co-ordinator of the Left Economic Advisory Panel
• Clare Caves - secretary of European Anti Poverty Network - England
• Maeve McGoldrick - Community Links
• Dann Kenningham - national coordination team, ATD Fourth World