The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely
Continue readingThe increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely
Continue readingThe increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
The new work and pensions secretary has suggested the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap will face lengthy
Continue readingCrabb hints at lengthy delays to manifesto pledge on disability jobs gap
Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled
Continue readingDisabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking
Continue readingDWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline
Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has drawn up secret plans for sweeping reforms that would make it far
Continue readingRevealed: DWP’s secret, ‘financially devastating’ proposals for benefits appeals
Government claims that welfare reforms are necessary, disregards the inevitable deaths they created, writes researcher Mo Stewart By: Mo Stewart
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. … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system
Disabled Michael O’Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: DWP twice pushed dad-of-two to suicide bid
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
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Study’s authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five … Continue readingUK child death rate among worst in western Europe, say experts
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting … Continue readingPersonal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
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.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract … Continue readingBlack Triangle Disabled People Against Cuts 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 … Continue readingMAKE NO MISTAKE: Iain Duncan Smith wants the end of social security
We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies … Continue readingAt last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies
The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws … Continue readingPauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past
Eight union leaders attack Labour’s newly promoted employment spokeswoman for ‘bashing the victims of failure’ … Continue readingEight Trades Union general secretaries attack Rachel Reeves for her ‘tougher than Tories’ welfare pledge