Labour says it will fight any effort to use special procedures to reverse Lords' votes on cutting benefits to disabled people

Most doctors surveyed say the Royal College of GPs and other medical groups should call for the bill to be scrapped

Ministers urged to make concessions over benefits for people with disabilities and serious illnesses following defeat in Lords
Chris and Fee lament Atos’s failures over the ‘fit to work’ tests  
I wonder if David Cameron is starting to get the message yet? If not, let me spell it out. His […]

Campaigners win House of Lords votes on Employment and Support Allowance

Lords prepare for critical debate on welfare benefit payments to cancer patients
The government has lost a vote in the House of Lords over its plans to cut the welfare bill. Peers […]
After a rare bone disease nearly killed him, Mark Sparrow had to stop working and now fears the ESA and […]

Labour optimistic of ability to dilute contaminated welfare reforms including means-testing of cancer patients
I believe that there comes a point in the life of any Prime Minister when the electorate is entitled to […]
Today sees the release of this report which devastatingly exposes the Government’s extreme mendacity in pretending to have properly consulted […]

Service provider charities censoring their public remarks for fear of funding reprisals, warns Independence Panel
With signs of voter discontent over coalition policies, the Government’s policy on cuts has led one disabled politician to review […]

The welfare reform bill will be disastrous for sick and disabled people. But we are now determined that our voices will be heard

Mayor of London says Disability Living Allowance proposals could push disadvantaged group into deeper poverty
More than 30 benefits claimants have died while appealing against a judgment that they were fit to work, official figures […]
Controversy rages about Labour’s developing position on social security reform as indicated in articles in the Daily Mail and The Guardian, writes Declan Gaffney […]
It’s fair to say, plenty of people have doubts about the current Labour frontbench. Nothing has convinced me more that […]
Liam Byrne on welfare ‘reform’: “An insult to the memory of Beveridge” The Guardian, Letters, Tuesday 3 January 2012 21.00 […]
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