Pushed to the Brink
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of
Tag: Disability Politics
Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
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Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
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‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again
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DWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation
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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the
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PIP investigation: Council probes ‘shockingly poor and dishonest’ assessments
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A local authority is to hear evidence from up to a
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DPO hopes mayoral election will see Manchester lead the way on disability rights
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A leading disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) is hoping to
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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell
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Scottish Government appeal for disabled people to join experience panels
Please see information below about two social security initiatives currently underway. We would appreciate your help and support to promote
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PIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A group of nine disabled people with the same rare
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PIP investigation: MPs’ evidence session confirms concerns, but dodges dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported
Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Disabled activists have explained why they took to the
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PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be
Disabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people
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Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for
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PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 A disabled woman is seeking a judicial review by
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No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The UK government will not be able to achieve its
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Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability
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Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The information commissioner has questioned why the government failed to
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