Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty […]
Disabled campaigners are calling for the resignation of the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner, the disabled Tory peer Lord [Chris] Holmes, […]
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 […]
Government claims that welfare reforms are necessary, disregards the inevitable deaths they created, writes researcher Mo Stewart By: Mo Stewart […]
Report by Mo Stewart: The takeover by the U.S. private medical insurance industry of the UK welfare state
Search Home Abstract PDF Current Issue Archive Online First J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206209 Research report ‘First, do no harm’: […]
  Austerity and Public Law Michael Adler: Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law Editors’ note: The blog is running a […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service Friday 30th October 2015 Cameron quizzed again on death of Michael O’Sullivan and DWP’s […]
  Copyright John Pring Disability News Service Friday 30th October 2015 Disabled people’s rights are regressing in every area of […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service 29th October 2015 Disabled people’s rights have gone backwards over the last five years, […]
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.
Disabled Michael O'Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work
  (Below) Prime Minister’s Questions 21/10/15 Jeremy Corbyn’s question concerning the current UN investigation into allegations of ‘grave and systematic’ […]
Black Triangle’s List of Deaths Linked to Benefit Loss arising from Welfare Reforms Wednesday 20th October 2015 Please note: Although […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Friday 25th September 2015 The chief coroner of England and Wales has refused to […]
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