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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Tag: Austerity
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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User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is
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Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against
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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
Social care ‘citizens’ assembly’ set up by MPs omits DPOs from panel of experts
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 A consultation event set up by MPs to produce recommendations from
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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 mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability
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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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The Nazis’ First Victims Were Disabled People ~ By Kenny Fries
The Nazis’ First Victims Were Disabled People ~ By Kenny Fries in The New York Times : ‘I first
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Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version
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Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging
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To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
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Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay
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Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –
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Spring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”
Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me
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Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the
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