FULL FACT: ‘Is benefit fraud at a “record high”?’ ~ The Sun’s Lies & Propaganda Exposed AGAIN
‘While this has seen a concurrent growth in fraud in cash terms, the level of fraud as a proportion
Month: January 2013
GPs and DWP-AtoS: ‘Picking up the pieces’ by Dr. Margaret McCartney FRCGP (Glasgow)
From: Dr Margaret McCartney Comments (13) First Posted by: Margaret McCartney 20 November 2012 There can hardly be a GP in the land
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Disability cuts: the big picture is terrifying
Individual benefit changes seem minor, says the head of Scope. But taken together, they present a worrying vision of
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Transcript: Bedroom Tax Debate Westminster Hall Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Housing Benefit and Disabled People WATCH THE DEBATE BY CLICKING HERE Westminster Hall 23rd January 2013 11
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‘Disgusting’: Family’s outrage at bedroom tax on severely disabled girl who needs her own room
27 Jan 2013 00:00 Doctors have said the youngster needs a custom built room – but family will lose £20
Through my brother’s struggles, I saw the reality of drugs policy. Addicts need care, not prison … Continue reading
In April many low-income families and disabled people will be forced to move or face more cuts
The EU is an elite project without popular support. Labour can bring it back to the people … Continue reading
BBC Panorama tonight: LTB’s (‘Lying Thieving Bastards’) is the new acronym for disabled jobless at DWP Work Programme provider Triage Ltd.
The Work Programme is an attempt to move 68,000 disabled people into work On paper, Linda Smith’s job
Nazi persecution of people with disabilities and what this means for us today
ANDREW BRADFORD The story of Charlie and Kathy Bradford Sunday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day Posted on January
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The Bedroom Tax: The Unkindest Cut of All?
Posted on January 27, 2013 by syzygysue by Jim Grundy On 1st April 2013, a little under 1,000 Ashfield District Council tenancies
The AtoS Death Toll ~ Occupy London
January 27, 2013 by Clive Menzies At Friday’s General Assembly, Occupy was asked to support action to protest the disability
‘No eviction for bedroom tax’ campaign endorsed by Shelter Scotland and Scottish TUC
Govan Law Centre (GLC) is delighted that Shelter Scotland and the STUC have endorsed the principles of the‘No eviction for bedroom
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Disabled Soldiers denied benefits: We’re the first ones to starve the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
Disabled by grenade – soldier fighting for benefits says he is being accused by DWP of faking his injuries Posted
DWP tells ex-soldier with one kidney on thrice-weekly dialysis to go back to work or lose benefits
Kidney dialysis patient says he is a victim of benefit cuts WATCH THE INTERVIEW WITH LEE HERE: http://www.itv.com/news/west/story/2013-01-24/kidney-patients-says-he-is-victim-of-benefits-cuts/
Former lance corporal wounded in grenade attack in Iraq says he is being accused of faking his injuries … Continue reading
A quarter of tenants subject to “bedroom tax” now being forced to leave their homes reports N.W. England’s biggest social landlord
The biggest social housing landlord in the north west says almost a quarter of its tenants subject to the
On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember Disabled People who perished in the Nazi Aktion T-4 Programme
27th January 2013 by Jemima Khant Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Here’s a film about the disabled victims of Aktion
Dundee injured war veteran fighting for Disability Allowance
By KATIE SMYTH, 25 January 2013 A Dundee veteran who lost his leg in a bomb blast in Afghanistan is appealing a
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3,300 Dundee households to be hit by ‘bedroom tax’
22 January 2013 MORE THAN 3,300 Dundee households face having their housing benefit slashed when the controversial bedroom tax
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