General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of
By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard
Continue readingDWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit
Continue readingBenefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
Continue readingBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to
Continue readingGovernment admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,
Continue readingVoting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why
Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
Continue readingConcern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
Continue readingPotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again
Continue reading‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation
Continue readingDWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper
Tuesday 28th March 2017 A panel of upper tribunal judges has made a decision relating to safety and
Continue readingSafety and supervision ruling could mean PIP for many more claimants
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the
Continue reading‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A local authority is to hear evidence from up to a
Continue readingPIP investigation: Council probes ‘shockingly poor and dishonest’ assessments
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A group of nine disabled people with the same rare
Continue readingPIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Disabled activists have explained why they took to the
Continue readingActivists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people
Continue readingDisabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts