‘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
Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people
By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show
Continue readingBlame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry
isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial
Continue readingDWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
By John Pring Disability News Service on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning Listen A press watchdog has received hundreds
Continue readingWatchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden
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… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
Continue readingDWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
Continue readingWhy are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
Continue readingTo live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability
Continue readingMotability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to
Continue readingWatchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive
Continue readingBenefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Outsourcing companies have been failing to request vital evidence from GPs
Continue readingThe PIP Files: DWP documents show ‘absolutely shocking’ failure on further evidence
John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no
Continue readingDWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 A nurse carrying out a disability benefit assessment fired questions
Continue readingAtos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures