‘Fit for Work’ Part Two – BBC R4 – The suicide of Mr Kevin Dooley – By Jolyon Jenkins
Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people
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Blame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry
By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show
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DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial
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Watchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
By John Pring Disability News Service on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning Listen A press watchdog has received hundreds
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Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins
’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the
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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda
Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
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Call For Evidence- Universal Credit Overpayments
Black Triangle Campaign and our sister organisation DPAC are calling for evidence regarding retrospective Overpayments. Have you received
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DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had
DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent
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DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing
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Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it
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Mother of ESA suicide woman pledges to continue fight for justice
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly
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DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart
Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’
By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new
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