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Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Minister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key

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Atos, Capita, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Mark Lucas, Nursing and Midwifery council, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)., PIP, The Professional Standards Authority (PSA)

Regulators face possible action over failure to discipline lying PIP assessors

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The body that oversees the UK’s health and care regulators is

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Atos, Conservatives, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee

Court orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be

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Diane Frazer, Dr Jay Watts, Hackney Community Law Centre, PIP, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

PIP & ESA Benefit Exemptions from Face to Face Assessments

December 19, 2017 JJ

Benefit assessments – exemption to protect vulnerable patients There is a great deal of evidence about the profound distress

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Assessments, Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Winvisible, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

November 24, 2017 JJ

Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs

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Assessments, Atos, CAB, Capita, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Involve North West, Maximus, PIP, Southampton Advice and Representation Centre, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Benefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf

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Autism, Conservatives, Disability Justice Project, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Inclusion London, Linda Burnip, National Autistic Society, Penny Mourdant, PIP, Public Law Project

Disabled woman takes DWP minister to court over PIP mental health changes

November 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 A disabled woman is taking work and pensions secretary David Gauke

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Benefits and Work, DRUK, DWP, Epilepsy Action, Penny Mourdant, PIP, Tory. Tories

Concern over government’s four-year delay on PIP ‘safety’

November 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Campaigners have asked why it took the government four years

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Assessments, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Ernest Ryder, PIP, Sir Henry Brooke

A Senior Judge Has Suggested Charging The Government For Every “No-Brainer” Benefits Case It Loses In Court

November 10, 2017 JJ

By Emily Dugan https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/most-dwp-benefits-cases-which-reach-court-are-based-on-bad?utm_term=.vdNwjXxjE6&ref=mobile_share#.rlzN1aX1Ar Britain’s most senior tribunal judge says most of the benefits cases that reach court are based

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Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, PIP, Work and Pensions Select Committee

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

November 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told

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Disability Solutions West Midlands, DWP, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tory. Tories

Advisor says 30 local claimants with terminal cancer had PIP rejections overturned

October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 A welfare rights advisor has described how at least

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Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Marsha de Cordova, Motobility, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after

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Capita, DWP, PIP

DWP rejects PIP claimant’s appeal… before she receives decision notice

August 25, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Fresh concerns have been raised about the integrity of the disability

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Atos, Conservatives, Disabled Survivors Unite, DWP, Equality Act, Human Rights, Justin Tomlinson, Maximus, PIP

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

August 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its

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Atos, Capita, DWP, Here2Support, MHRN, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, Roy Bard

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using

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DWP, National AIDS Trust, PIP, River House

People living with HIV ‘have been failed by PIP’

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 People with HIV have been failed by the government’s

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Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DWP, ICO Information Commissioners Office, NMC, PIP

PIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 The government and its private sector contractors are refusing to investigate

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DRUK, DWP, Motobility, Muscular Dystrophy UK, PIP

PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights

July 8, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 More than half of those disabled people previously eligible

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Atos, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mordaunt, PIP

Woman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor

June 15, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 A disabled women says she was left to sit

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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

June 2, 2017 JJ

Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an

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Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.

Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.

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Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle

Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog

Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.

Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.

Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011

Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future

Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for

Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism

Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.

DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.

Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation

Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.

Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.

Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.

Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!

Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report

soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …

Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment

The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout

The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”

The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”

The Void Narking off the state since 2005

Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.

Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)

Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.

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Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance

YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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