Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic […]
Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving […]
  Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used […]
Union delegates say the government’s decision to reverse planned cuts to its new disability benefit could be a turning-point in […]
A traumatised child abuse victim has branded the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “shameful” for trying to force him […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 26th May 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for Iain Duncan Smith to […]
While the appropriate offence would be Misconduct in Public Office we would like share with you the following complaint to Northumbria […]
  No civilian has any comprehension of life in British military forces, or the impact of the removal of that […]
Friday 20th May 2016 Addressing the TUC Disabled Worker’s Conference at Transport House in London today Shadow Chancellor of the […]
  In a Debate after the Queens speech  Deidre Brock MP said the following at 8.58; https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-05-18/debates/16051856000002/DebateOnTheAddress#contribution-16051881000088 “Let me offer […]
The government may have abandoned its target to halve the disability employment gap, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. […]
The computer system used for new personal independence payment (PIP) claims has crashed twice in a week, just days after […]
Ministers have refused to say if they implemented 10 measures – recommended by their own civil servants – that would […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it could be partly responsible for the deaths of […]
  Updated from: http://loopys-rollingwiththepunches.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/iain-duncan-smith-legacy.html   The following is a list of policies and damning court decisions and findings undertaken under […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Saturday 14th May 2016 After 21 months of smokescreens, excuses, obstruction and secrecy, work […]
By Patrick Butler and John Pring ‘Peer reviews’ challenge claims by ministers that there is no connection between welfare reform […]
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely […]
The new work and pensions secretary has sent out mixed signals on whether he wants to make further cuts to […]
  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking […]
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