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PIP & ESA Benefit Exemptions from Face to Face Assessments

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  Benefit assessments – exemption to protect vulnerable patients There is a great deal of evidence about the profound distress which face-to-face assessments for disability benefits can cause, especially for women and men with mental health conditions. The prospect of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Diane Frazer, Dr Jay Watts, Hackney Community Law Centre, PIP, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, disability rights, DWP, PIP, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

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Image Courtesy of Winvisible   By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs that the “terrifying insecurity” caused by the government’s regime of disability benefit assessments is driving disabled women to destitution, and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Assessments, Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Winvisible, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Winvisible | Leave a reply

Ofgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The energy regulator’s “discriminatory” plans to impose only a “very limited” cap on fuel prices will “will lead to deaths, ill health and misery” for hundreds of thousands of disabled people, … Continue reading →

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Posted in DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Fuel Poverty Action, Inclusion London, Tory. Tories, Winvisible | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, John Pring, Politics, Poverty, Society, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given the job of designing the solution to the social care funding crisis. John McDonnell was speaking to Disability News Service … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, HOC, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, Winvisible | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Shock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take evidence on the apparent links between the government’s “fitness for work” test and the death of a disabled north London … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, DWP, HMC, John McDonnell, Ken Loach, Labour Party, Maximus, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Labour, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

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Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an Oxfordshire market. ‘UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories’ By Linda Burnip DPAC in New Internationalist Thursday 1st … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ian Duncan Smith, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, PIP, PIP Deaths, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign, WOW Petition | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the streets around parliament to protest at the government’s latest cuts to disability benefits. The protest, organised by Disabled People Against … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour Party, MHRN, PIP, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, PIP, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

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By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017   About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in a protest and vigil to mark the death of a disabled man who died minutes after leaving a jobcentre… six … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, DWP, I Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, Maximus, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Kilburn Unemployed Workers Network, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

McDonnell pledges Labour will force government to debate UN ‘rights violations’ report

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By John Pring  Disability News Service Novemeber 17th 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged before MPs to explain why it was found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights by … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Black Triangle Campaign, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, John McDonnell, Labour Party, MHRN, UKCRPD, UN, Winvisible | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

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