The Northern Ireland Executive must act to protect low-income families from the effects of benefits changes, says Goretti Horgan At […]
THE programme of reassessing incapacity benefits has been condemned as degrading and humiliating by a woman in North Devon. The […]
A DISABLED man has hit out at a new government policy aimed at getting people on sickness benefits back into […]
  French IT firm Atos have the contract to carry out the Government’s Work Capability Assessment, a short computer based […]
Published on Monday 23 April 2012 12:31 AN Edinburgh MSP has welcomed an announcement that 500,000 Scots will be protected against […]

The big organisations have come out, guns blazing, against the attack on tax relief for the super-rich. Where have they been in the fight against attacks on the poorest people?
  Mark Shields Tuesday, April 24, 2012  A schizophrenic city man who was turning his life around killed himself after becoming […]

Proposal emerges as Tory minister condemns Labour Newham council for plans to move housing benefit claimants to Stoke
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 Published 22/03/2012 10:30 PM  As grassroots disabled people’s organisations, Black Triangle […]
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 […]
  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 Telephone Counselling Tel:             08088 01 03 62       National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland.              08088 01 03 […]
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
This guide assumes that you are not already on the Work Programme and not been referred to it. Firstly, if you can spend […]
  8:50am Saturday 21st April 2012 in Catterick By Rob Merrick UP to 50,000 people will be forced off sickness benefits across […]
‘Real militancy against austerity will come from outside the unions and – short of something bloody spectacular – the pensions […]
  French company Atos, which has a £108m per year contract with the government, has failed to remove grossly misleading claims from […]
Published on Saturday 21 April 2012 00:29 ALMOST 5,000 Scots claiming incapacity benefit have been reassessed as being “fit for work” […]
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e-petition - Stop Unfair Re-assessments For Disabled People

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Stop the unfair and cruel re-assessments via ATOS for disabled people currently on Incapacity Benefit. ESA is a flawed benefit, and puts terrible pressure and stress on vulnerable people, putting people who cannot work on lesser benefits and applying sanctions. Let disabled people decide for themselves if they can work, they and their carers know best.

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