PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people
Continue readingDisabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts
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 A disabled woman is seeking a judicial review by
Continue readingPIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The UK government will not be able to achieve its
Continue readingNo chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The information commissioner has questioned why the government failed to
Continue readingInformation commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies
Continue readingG4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over
Continue readingQuestions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work,
Continue readingSpartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 A disabled woman who lost her disability benefits because of a
Re: #Bafta #IDanielBlake #KenLoach – Comment of the year – By Fiona Robertson ‘The one and only famous person outside
Continue readingFiona Robertson SNP on Trump, protest and U.K. disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian
Continue readingGreen Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 The outsourcing company Capita offered freelance social workers financial bonuses
Continue reading‘Immoral’ Capita offered £200 bonuses to social workers to slash care packages
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Former recipients of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in England experienced
Continue readingDWP report confirms fears over impact of ILF closure
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers
Continue readingMPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 A disabled campaigner has told MPs that he believes cuts to
Continue readingCuts to support killed my neighbours,’ MPs are told
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th January 2017 The prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy, after making
Continue readingMay’s mental health speech ‘is smokescreen to hide damage of welfare reform’
By John Pring Disability News Service November 25th 2016 A Labour MP has proved that the government has abandoned a
Continue readingIt’s official: Ministers have abandoned their disability employment gap target
By John Pring Disability News service November 25th 2016 The chancellor has shocked disabled activists by ignoring the
Continue readingChancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’