#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into
By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has
Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
Continue readingIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in
Continue readingLower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
Continue readingBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to
Continue readingGovernment admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,
Continue readingVoting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
Continue readingConcern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
Continue readingPotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the
Continue reading‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Disabled activists have explained why they took to the
Continue readingActivists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for
Continue readingMaximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions
Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability
Continue readingGreen paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO