Disability living allowance is being replaced with personal independence payment assessments, and private companies are queueing up to cash in … Continue reading
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To the “Squeezed Middle” – Labour & Tory Welfare “Reforms” affect YOU: Unum’s ‘Back-Up Plan” will not save you!
“In this special….. Insider Exclusive presents… “Disability Insurance Expose – UNUM Insurance & Dr Anthony Sterling’s Story” And how Frank
Atos: not fit to work the ‘fit to work’ test
Chris and Fee lament Atos’s failures over the ‘fit to work’ tests
31 deaths during wait for benefits judgment
More than 30 benefits claimants have died while appealing against a judgment that they were fit to work, official figures
For a government committed to getting people working, abolishing the disability living allowance presents a PR challenge … Continue reading
Campaigners attack drive to block benefits appeals as decisions get overturned
A FIRM employed by the Government to weed outbenefit cheats are losing more than two thirds ofthe appeals against their
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Disability Studies and the Disability Perspective
Disability Studies and the Disability Perspective David PfeifferCenter on Disability StudiesUniversity of Hawaii Abstract At a meeting of
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There’s no point blaming foreigners for the failure of our government’s procurement policies. Profit is the real problem … Continue reading
MSP’s SLAMMED FOR REJECTING UK BENEFITS REFORM
HOLYROOD politicians were last night accused of “grandstanding” by refusing to rubber-stamp the UK Government’s welfare reforms. Nationalists and Labour
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‘Disability benefit’ shake-up ‘grinding to a halt’
Government assessments to determine Disability Living Allowance for people in Cornwall are flawed, local independent benefits advisers claim. Jim McKenzie
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Things to do this Christmas: Please act on and share this post!
There are so many things that need doing this festive season in the fight against the welfare reform bill and
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Millions of us are living in terror of brown envelopes arriving from the Department for Work and Pensions … Continue reading
Is the new disabled work benefit working?
Employment minister Chris Grayling says he is confident glitches in the system used to decide who is fit to work
Disability – Deafblind discriminated against in new assessment
Major faults outlined in Sense report. A major review of the new assessment arrangements for individuals seeking benefits has been undertaken by Sense, the charity which
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What to do when you receive notice that you have “Failed” your Atos “W.C.A.” Assessment
IMPORTANT UPDATES: How to Gain Exemption from DWP/Atos ‘Fit for Work’ & WRAG decisions by Applying ESA Regulations 29 and
It’s not just Rupert Murdoch and his crooks. All the corporate barons who corrupted our political system must be unmasked … Continue reading
A Rolling Festive Phone-in to Atos ‘Healthcare’
As part of the National Month of Festive Action Against Atos we are calling for a rolling mass telephone complaint to poverty
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Laurie Penny: How could Labour have been so cruel?
It’s because of the previous government that cancer patients are suffering additional pain? By Laurie Penny Cancer patients are to
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Targeting people with terminal illness might be so awful as to be a tactical manoeuvre. It’s hard for campaigners to tell … Continue reading