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DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have
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Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health
‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has
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In confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
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Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in
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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
Boycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
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Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to
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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why
By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,
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Pushed to the Brink
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of
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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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: 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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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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#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations
Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had
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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