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Cat Links DWP, Grahame Morris MP, John Slater, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

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

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Cat Links Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit

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

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Cat Links Blog, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

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

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Cat Links 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

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

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Cat Links Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

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Cat Links 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

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

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Cat Links 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

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

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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

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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

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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

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