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DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018   Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had their disability benefit claims decided on evidence from assessment reports that were of “unacceptable” poor quality, government figures suggest. The … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Grahame Morris MP, John Slater, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Welfare | Leave a reply

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart of Westminster will empower other disabled people to follow their lead and fight the government’s social security cuts and reforms. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Discrimination Law Association, DRUK, EHRC, Proudlock Associates | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, UK news | Leave a reply

Spring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”

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  Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me with an earlier sight of his statement. I say to the Chancellor: his complacency today is astounding. We face – … Continue reading →

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Posted in John McDonnell, Labour Party | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Labour, Politics, Poverty, Spring Budget 2018 | Leave a reply

DWP breaks promise again to stop harassing abuse survivor over benefit claim

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has again broken its promise to stop harassing a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Disabled Survivors Unite (DSU), DWP | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, PIP, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases

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  John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no disabled people will have their benefits reduced because of its decision to review 1.6 million personal independence payment (PIP) claims. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Activists explain why they ‘clashed’ with minister after PIP debate

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By John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 Two disabled activists have explained why they “clashed” with the minister for disabled people at the end of a parliamentary debate on personal independence payment (PIP). Paula Peters and Keith Walker, … Continue reading →

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Posted in DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Keith Walker, Marsha de Cordova, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age

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    Reblogged Deepest thanks to Socialist Project for working with us in OCAP to put out this pamphlet. It is a collection of articles and statements that OCAP members have written on the subject of basic income. It includes … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, John McDonnell, Labour Party, OCAP | Tagged Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Disability, Disability Politics, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics | Leave a reply

Minister hid judges’ criticism of McVey from MPs, hours after shock appointment

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Image Courtesy of  The Mirror   By John Pring Disability New Service 11th January 2018 The minister for disabled people has refused to apologise for misleading MPs about a court of appeal judgment that was highly critical of her new … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ian Lucas MP, ILF Fund, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Nathan Lee Davies, Patricia Gibson MP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, SNP, Tories, Tory. Tories | Tagged Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Labour, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Minister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors

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By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key recommendations made by the independent reviewer of its new disability benefit, which would have made it easier for claimants to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Expert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test

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By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its much-criticised “fitness for work” test appears to have suggested that the assessment should be scrapped and replaced with a radically … Continue reading →

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Posted in Dr Gordon Waddell, Dr Paul Litchfield, Professor Nicholas Watson, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Fury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures

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By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017   “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee for refusing to ask the minister for disabled people about figures showing attempted suicides among people claiming out-of-work disability benefits … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Frank Field, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, MHRN, Mo Stewart, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Research linking care cuts to 120,000 deaths ‘is fresh evidence austerity kills’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 “Indisputable” new research has linked government cuts in adult social care and health spending to nearly 120,000 “excess” deaths in England since 2010. The research, published just before midnight last night … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, John McArdle, Johnathan Ashworth, Labour Party, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, Social Care | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | Leave a reply

‘Caution’ urged over government’s supported housing U-turn

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By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 Long-term supported housing will continue to be funded through the social security system, the government has announced, while it has also scrapped plans to cap housing benefit payments, which caused huge … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, John Healey, National Housing Federation, Theresa May | Tagged Austerity, Conservatives, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Poverty, Scottish politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

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  By John Pring Disability News Service  2nd November 2017   Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told a Commons inquiry that disability benefit assessment reports completed on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions are filled … Continue reading →

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Posted in Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, PIP, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

National summit set to build new alliances and ‘reinvigorate’ the movement

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  By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Organisers of a national “summit meeting” of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), grassroots campaigns and trade unions hope it will “reinvigorate” the disability movement. The National Disabled People’s Summit is being … Continue reading →

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Posted in Debbie Jolly, Eleanor Firman., Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, Robert Dellar, ROFA, Sisters of Frida, Sophie Partridge | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after she claimed that the UK had “volunteered” to take part in a public UN examination which concluded that her government’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Marsha de Cordova, Motobility, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she has been forced to resort to crowdfunding to obtain a wheelchair that is suitable for her needs, because of “chronic” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, welfare state | Leave a reply

Labour conference: No vote on tax-funded social care system, at least until 2018

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  By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour has promised an extra £3 billion a year to start the job of building a National Care Service, but has not said how it would reform the long-term funding … Continue reading →

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Posted in Barbara Keeley, NIck Forbes | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Abrahams pledges ‘supportive and enabling’ social security system

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the social security system from one that “demonises” benefit claimants to one that is “supportive and enabling”. Debbie Abrahams told Labour’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ellen Clifford, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, PCS, UNCRPD | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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