Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
A government minister and executives from the company that carries out “fitness for work” tests on disabled people have faced
Continue readingMiller and Atos face angry heckling at disability poverty conference
Ministers have been forced to hire more than 80 new judges in a multi-million pound effort to address appeals by
Continue readingGovernment hires extra judges to tackle welfare appeal backlog
GLASGOW’S great extremes of rich and poor are, at this time of year, thrown into even sharper relief, just as
Continue readingPeter Ross: A spotlight on the work of the Citizens Advice Bureau
The number of appeals for ESA has quadrupled in 2 years, from 68,000 in 2009 to 240,000 by the end
Continue readingChannel 4 news – ESA appeal’s are endless – Employment and Support Allowance
“The firm provides work placements to 100 people with mental health conditions at its five businesses, including the Parkview Laundry
BMA says contracts race is unfair to NHS bidders, undermining Andrew Lansley’s pledge of local clinical leadership … Continue reading
For the last financial year the income of the following organisations is as follows – Scope – 101 million
A cabinet minister has been heavily criticised after again appearing to encourage national newspapers to run stories attacking disabled benefit
Continue readingIDS ‘panders’ to Daily Mail again, hours after promising to change his ways
Labour have accused ministers of making “outrageous and outlandish” comments about the disabled and the feeding the comments to the
Continue readingMinisters accused of causing fear for disabled people
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as
New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played
Continue readingNew evidence of corporate giant’s influence on welfare reform
A Channel 4 News investigation reveals that under the reforms of the NHS, GPs could end up making decisions based
Continue readingLeaked Document Shows How Doctors Can Profit From Welfare Reform
The extraordinary announcement that GPs may no longer be able to sign their patients off work for periods longer than
Continue readingWelfare reform and the US insurance giant Unum
Planned changes to the UK benefits system have left disabled people “suicidal”, campaigners in Scotland have said. They told MSPs
Continue readingDisabled ‘suicidal’ over Welfare Reform Bill
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Continue readingResponse to our open letter and Atos’s reply to the BMJ:
The sickness absence review will only lead to incapacitated people limply tramping the streets looking for nonexistent jobs … Continue reading
C4 investigation reveals government’s work capability assessment programme is clogged with costly, unresolved cases … Continue reading
Currently, it works like this. If you are ill and unable to work, you sign yourself off work for the
Continue readingMargaret McCartney – General practitioners and sickness absence
A NIGHTMARE neighbour launched a hate campaign against a wheelchair user – branding him a benefit scrounger because he had
Continue readingCruel neighbour waged three-month hate campaign
