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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has drawn up secret plans for sweeping reforms that would make it far
Continue readingRevealed: DWP’s secret, ‘financially devastating’ proposals for benefits appeals
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party
Letters to The Herald Saturday 25th April 2015 WE note that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has
By Stephen Naysmith Social Affairs Correspondent Herald Scotland Wednesday 22 April 2015 Journalist John Pring is not a
24 April 2015 By John Pring, Disability News Service The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they
Continue readingELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund … Continue readingSecond court case to challenge ILF closure in England and Wales launched
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
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BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: ‘The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy
Scottish independence is a lifeboat for disabled Scots: To vote YES is a vote for life. It is NOT a vote of no solidarity with our disabled sisters and brothers south of the border … Continue readingScottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts
“This is the day, our day, Scotland’s day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland’s future and hear the infant cries of a new country,” … Continue readingScotland faces “severest cuts in political history, over and above the retrenchment of the last few years” if it votes for the status quo