The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely […]
Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking […]
Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on […]
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims.
Disabled Michael O'Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the […]
Study's authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith's new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting
BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: 'The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government's pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.'
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract
Don't let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man's true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net
We Are Spartacus releases its 'almanac of condemnation', a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies
Eight union leaders attack Labour's newly promoted employment spokeswoman for 'bashing the victims of failure'
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