Mother who was signed off work with ‘excruciating pain’, another victim of controversial disability benefit assessments
Some of the hundreds of protesters who demonstrated outside Atos HQ in Euston on Friday Published: 6
Some of the hundreds of protesters who demonstrated outside Atos HQ in Euston on Friday Published: 6
6 September 2012 Last updated at 11:46 The success of British Paralympians is highlighting welfare reform, as major changes are proposed to
Continue readingAtos protests and disability benefit payment changes
Research and reflection from both sides of the Atlantic Posted on September 6, 2012 by Ben Baumberg For a couple of years now,
Continue readingDo people overestimate the levels of benefits?
Scant hope for us here ~ unless some sort of United Kingdom Anti-Cuts Party gets launched or the TUSC gets it act
Sep 6 2012 by Janine Yaqoob, Crosby Herald AN AMPUTEE who can’t work because of his poor health has been told he
Continue readingAmputee denied benefits despite chronic pain
Published by Ross Macmillan for 24dash.com Wednesday 5th September 2012 – 4:46pm The Government’s work capability assessments (WCA) – which sees
Continue readingMP’s constituent with broken back passed ‘fit for work’
After the reshuffle, Ed Miliband should realise that voters are focused on jobs, benefits and rents, not on pensions, shares and house prices … Continue reading
Don’t be surprised by the controversial company’s Paralympic sponsorship. Outsourcing unpopular decisions is now policy … Continue reading
Thursday 6th September 2012 Sainsbury’s funds support the psychiatrists behind the Work Capability and forthcoming PIP assessments. Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (and more recently, particularly
Continue readingBOYCOTT SAINSBURYS! Like ATOS, proud sponsors of our misery….
We have been in touch with Germany’s biggest and most widely-read magazine “Bild” about our continuing struggle against so-called welfare ‘reform’
Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of Cameron’s performance today: Tell a lie, tell it big – and repeat often: “If
The Atos Debate begins at 10.58 (Extract – 11.58 a.m.) John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington) (Lab): Yesterday, I met constituents
(Headline by Black Triangle ~ NOT Ekklesia) Faced with the costs of an ageing population and more sick and disabled
”Yesterday I went to Neasden with a 59 year-old man for his ATOS “Assessment”. We had organised
By Linda Burnip, Co-Founder Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) McVey was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Employment Minister Chris
Continue readingNew Minister for Disabled People Esther McVey – Maria Miller Mark II?
‘Mental health blog by a service user with bipolar disorder’ Posted on September 4, 2012 Yesterday I arrived home
Ministers should be forced to endure the painful medicine they are inflicting on seriously ill people who can’t work for free … Continue reading
This morning we witnessed some impassioned debate on the DWP/AtoS Work Capability Assessment by MPs in Westminster Hall. Labour, MPs
In today’s edition of The Independent Tom Greatrex and Stephen Timms seek to defend Labour’s introduction of the AtoS Work
UPDATE: Monday 4/9/12 Dear Ian, Many thanks for forwarding the response to our complaint from the Permanent Secretary at the