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Disabled activists have pledged to use direct action protests to “put a stake through the heart” of the idea that disabled people can be used as scapegoats and “whipping boys” in the run-up to general elections. At an emergency meeting of […]
Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride has misled MPs about new plans to slash spending on out-of-work disability benefits by removing a vital safety net that protects those at risk of suicide. The plans, released by the Department for Work and […]
Government welfare reforms introduced in 2016 have had a “devastating” impact on disabled people and others in low-income households over the last five years, according to a new report by a group of MPs and peers. The report (PDF) by the […]
The announcement of billions of pounds of cuts to the government’s new disability benefit is a discriminatory attack on people with mental health problems, will push many of them further into poverty and isolation, and will put lives at risk, say […]