Secret DWP proposal to scrap ESA ‘substantial risk’ rules ‘would breach right to life’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has proposed scrapping two benefit regulations that offer vital protection to disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has proposed scrapping two benefit regulations that offer vital protection to disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has drawn up secret plans for sweeping reforms that would make it far
Continue readingRevealed: DWP’s secret, ‘financially devastating’ proposals for benefits appeals
Benefits claimants are subjected to an ‘amateurish, secret penal system which is more severe than the mainstream judicial system’, writes
BBC Question Time, Grimsby, Thursday 22nd October 2015 LINK TO FULL SEGMENT [Scroll to 35 minutes 35 seconds into the
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims. … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system
Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
I believe that there comes a point in the life of any Prime Minister when the electorate is entitled to
Mayor of London says Disability Living Allowance proposals could push disadvantaged group into deeper poverty … Continue reading
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
Continue reading‘Labour’s untenable position on social security and disability’ – Left Foot Forward
Our panel discusses the shadow work and pensions secretary’s return to William Beveridge in his comments on reform … Continue reading
Disability Studies and the Disability Perspective David PfeifferCenter on Disability StudiesUniversity of Hawaii Abstract At a meeting of
Continue readingDisability Studies and the Disability Perspective
Serious doubts have emerged about crucial statistics used by the minister for disabled people to justify the government’s sweeping disability
Continue readingGovernment caught out on DLA statistics… again
HOLYROOD politicians were last night accused of “grandstanding” by refusing to rubber-stamp the UK Government’s welfare reforms. Nationalists and Labour
Continue readingMSP’s SLAMMED FOR REJECTING UK BENEFITS REFORM
Government assessments to determine Disability Living Allowance for people in Cornwall are flawed, local independent benefits advisers claim. Jim McKenzie
Continue reading‘Disability benefit’ shake-up ‘grinding to a halt’
There are so many things that need doing this festive season in the fight against the welfare reform bill and
Continue readingThings to do this Christmas: Please act on and share this post!