Month: May 2012
500,000 to lose disability benefit – Telegraph
Half a million people are set to lose disability benefits as the Government pushes ahead with plans to rid the
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Iain Duncan Smith: ‘I’m not scared to light the fuse on disability reform’
Iain Duncan Smith is ready to overhaul an area of benefits others have shied away from
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Iain Duncan Smith launches shocking attack on Disabled Workers
Rowson in The Guardian By Johnny Void Iain Duncan Smith has launched an astonishing attack on disabled workers exposing that the Tories
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Tribute to murdered Welsh disability rights activist Peter Lewis
“Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered” (Ps.
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AUDIO: Black Triangle’s oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament Welfare Reform Committee 1st May 2012
01/05/2012 LISTEN : Dr. Stephen Carty, Black Triangle Campaign Stephen’s address to the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee at 15
Black Triangle’s Evidence: The Scottish Parliament Official Report – Welfare Reform Committee 1st May 2012
Simply click on the link below and enter the search term “Carty” in your web browser’s “find” tool on the
Claim welfare reforms drove writer Paul Reekie to suicide
Published on Wednesday 2 May 2012 12:10 ONE of the Capital’s best-known writers was driven to suicide by the Government’s
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Homelessness Charity Crisis chief hits out at ‘inhumane’ work test
The government’s test to assess whether individuals are suitable for employment is an ‘inhumane ordeal’ for homeless people, the head
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Backlash against benefits ‘shame’ – ILkeston Advertiser
Published on Wednesday 2 May 2012 08:00 ILKESTON folk have hit out at the Government this week after our story in
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The sick cost of cuts to benefits – The Daily Mirror
The Con-Dems are hammering those struggling with serious ill health as they bring in more welfare reforms this week. Charities
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BLACK TRIANGLE: Written submission to the Scottish Parliament Welfare Reform Committee 1st May 2012
WR/S4/12/6/2 WRITTEN SUBMISSION FROM BLACK TRIANGLE CAMPAIGN TO THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT WELFARE REFORM COMMITTEE We express our burning concern about
Tragic poet serves as a warning to Holyrood – The Scotsman
A SCOTTISH poet who took his own life and left his benefit withdrawal notice as a “suicide note” was held
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Poet’s ‘suicide note’ held up as warning over impact of welfare reforms – STV News
A poet who left his notice of benefit withdrawal as a “suicide note” after taking his own life has been
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Purge on disabled a Nazi piece of work – The Scottish Sun
By ANDREW NICOLL, Scottish Political Editor Published: Today at 01:45 A DOCTOR yesterday likened the UK Government’s welfare reform
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Documentary by Positive Money – ‘A Simple Solution to the Debt Crisis’
When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often
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Daily Heil Reports! ‘Man with life-threatening blood clots and open leg ulcers loses benefits after job centre labels him fit for work’
Wonders never cease, say Black Triangle. What’s going on down at the Daily Heil? Have they seen the light By
Beveridge principle bites the dust – Sick and disabled claimants are about to have their contributory allowances severely capped
Sick and disabled claimants are about to have their contributory allowances severely capped. It marks an end to Beveridge’s
Leveson Inquiry: Lord Justice Leveson has rejected our pleas to hear evidence about press defamation of people with disabilities and hate crime
By Katharine Quarmby Module One of the judge led Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and