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Month: April 2012
It’s true, Ms Dorries, Cameron and Osborne are out of touch. When will they also be out of office?
By Sonia Poulton 23rd April 2012 Quick, somebody pinch me. I’ve just had a moment when I’m not sure if
Disability charities were right to boycott Miller meeting
Disability charities were right to boycott Miller meeting Published 22/03/2012 10:30 PM As grassroots disabled people’s organisations, Black Triangle
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Scottish GPs back call to end work capability assessments
Published 29/03/2012 11:30 PM SCOTTISH GPs are backing a move to end controversial work capability assessment’s (WCSs). Disability rights group Black
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End inhumane WCA assessments
PUBLISHED in LETTERS 19/04/2012 11:18 PM End inhumane WCA assessments We, the undersigned, fully support the decision made by Paul
YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland
Your Call Telephone Counselling Tel: 08088 01 03 62 National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland. 08088 01 03
Are most incapacity benefit claimants found fit for work in some parts of the country?
23 April, 2012 – 17:07 — Alex Walsh Over the weekend the Daily Mail dubbed Brentwood, Essex, the skiving capital
Ten of the UK’s biggest private outsourcing companies have been shortlisted to deliver controversial Personal Independence Payment health assessments – with one notable exception … Continue reading
Simple Guide: “How to deal with the Work Programme” for those placed on it
This guide assumes that you are not already on the Work Programme and not been referred to it. Firstly, if you can spend
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50,000 across North-East and North Yorkshire to lose sickness benefit
8:50am Saturday 21st April 2012 in Catterick By Rob Merrick UP to 50,000 people will be forced off sickness benefits across
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Cynical reflections ahead of the next public sector strike: Real militancy against austerity will come from outside the unions
‘Real militancy against austerity will come from outside the unions and – short of something bloody spectacular – the pensions
ROGUE Company AtoS has failed to remove grossly misleading claims as ordered by the ASA
French company Atos, which has a £108m per year contract with the government, has failed to remove grossly misleading claims from
SNP: Fit-for-Work judgments must be based on impartial medical evidence not “arbitrary Whitehall targets” set by ConDem Ministers
Published on Saturday 21 April 2012 00:29 ALMOST 5,000 Scots claiming incapacity benefit have been reassessed as being “fit for work”
Worn-out under-70’s will be counted among the work-shy scrounger unemployed category of the undeserving poor
Retirement is for Directors and the rich “They may be tired, worn-out and not very fit, but that will not
Sick and Disabled Claimants “A waste of human life” says DWP Minister Grayling
More than four in ten of Bradford’s sickness benefit claimants are being told to get a job, it has been
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Sacked by the DWP after 34 years’ service for depression – and then found ‘fit for work’ by DWP/AtoS
Extraordinary! The Express would normally say she was benefit-scrounging scum – a malingerer on the take. Here’s Jane’s story: CLAIMS
Legal Aid abolitionist and insurance-industry lackey Minister Jonathan Djangoly laughs at asbestos victims
Legal Aid abolitionist and insurance-industry lackey Jonathan Djangoly showed the true face of the Tory Party yet again last week
840 claimants fail back to work test – The Staffordshire Sentinel
Published Saturday, April 21, 2012 HUNDREDS of benefit claimants have been told they are fit enough to work. From 1,160
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Owen Jones: I can afford to pay the rent – most people can’t
The ‘London Clearances’ gathers momentum: To get a two-bed place in Tower Hamlets you need more than double the median
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Disability Cuts protest brings traffic chaos to central London – Disability Lib
Disabled activists have again brought traffic chaos to central London by chaining their wheelchairs across busy pedestrian crossings in protest
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