Margaret McCartney – General practitioners and sickness absence
Currently, it works like this. If you are ill and unable to work, you sign yourself off work for the
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Debate Re: Proposed Formal Structures for the Black Triangle Campaign?
Over the past year the Black Triangle Campaign has developed in both scope and influence from an informal Facebook group
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Supplementary memorandum submitted by UnumProvident following the publication of the Welfare Reform Green Paper
More Meddling from Unum in Government policy? UnumProvident is the UKs leading provider of group income protection insurance, with over
Government “acting like dodgy insurance firm” over ESA time limit, says Thomas
A disabled peer has accused her own government of behaving like a dishonest insurance company over its treatment of hundreds
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Memorandum submitted by Unum Provident to UK Government (EDP 03) From December 2002
Proof of Unum influencing Government policy? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UnumProvident has been operating in the UK for over 30 years, and is
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Disabled children paying high price of welfare reform
Forty per cent of disabled children are living in poverty a report has claimed. Analysis published by the charity The
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Did Lord Freud give Peers a clear picture of the Work Capability Assessment?
Last week, members of the House of Lords debated the Government’s proposals to reform the Welfare System. Since the debate, doubts
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URGENT NOTICE – Scotland Says “NO!” To The Welfare Reform Bill Campaign
Black Triangle, Inclusion Scotland and Capability Scotland are calling on disabled people to contact their MSP immediately and let them
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SCOPE stocks up savings – but at whose cost?
All those who like me went to the hardest hit event in Edinburgh or in any of the other towns
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Stickers promoting DWP Examinations Forum & Black Triangle
These posters have been designed to be printed out on standard Avery sticky labels so that people can print them
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Internet Censorship Bullies Strike Again?
It looks like possibly the DWP, (Department of Worry & Pain as one of our clan calls them), have been
CUTS KILL! Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy – The Lancet
There is an epidemic of suicide in Greece as a direct result of cuts and austerity. In the UK hospital
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Mail on Sunday Motability update: Correction appended to original article 19 October 2011
Full Fact: 19 October, 2011 – 10:53 — Patrick Casey On Monday we highlighted the problem that, despite the Mail on Sunday using its
Charities ‘horror’ at plans to cut ESA during appeals
Disability charities are horrified at government plans to cut employment and support allowance (ESA) during appeals. They hit back at
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‘It’s exploitation and it’s repellent’: Retailers, councils and charities blatantly exploiting people on ‘workfare’
September 26, 2011 TK Maxx, Wilkinsons, Savers and Matalan have been named as major retailers where unemployed people are being
Time to Occupy Our Own Lives
As we speak, hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in city centres across the world in order to stand
Fight for the right to work – Guardian Letters Sun 16th October 2011
Black Triangle and our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) are signatories to this letter – we are in
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The Hardest Hit – Be Heard! Join with the Authentic Disability Rights Movement
Who is going to “Hardest Hit” 22nd of October in Edinburgh? Black Triangle will be at the Hardest Hit flying
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Judged fit to work? You could lose your benefits if you appeal
Posted by Samira Shackle – 14 October 2011 09:09 The government could cut off incapacity payments if people challenge the ruling that
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