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Labour pledges ‘transformation’ of social security as it fleshes out disability policies

Labour has pledged to “transform” the social security system and to set out a bill to repeal cuts to disabled people’s benefits within a year, in one of the headline measures of a mini-manifesto devoted solely to disability issues. The document, Nothing About You, Without You, was launched last weekend in Manchester, and expands

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May 18, 2017

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Election 2017: Labour’s rights pledges suggest vindication for Abrahams

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Labour’s general election manifesto includes a string of policies aimed at improving the rights of disabled people, including a commitment to incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law for the first time. The manifesto appears to be a vindication of the efforts of shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams (pictured), who headed

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Marie Rimmer speaking in the House of Commons

May 4, 2017

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Snap election puts co-production of Labour social security policies at risk

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Labour has refused to say what impact the snap election will have on its lengthy efforts to ensure that disabled people’s views are at the heart of its new social security policies. Although it says the results of its Disability Equality Roadshow will still feed into the party’s development of its manifesto, it has

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Penny Mordaunt speaking in the House of Commons

March 23, 2017

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Nearly half of PIP reviews saw award cut, according to unpublished DWP figures

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Nearly half of disabled people subject to “planned reviews” of their eligibility for the government’s new disability benefit are having their existing award either cut or removed completely, according to new figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS). The unpublished Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show that the proportion of claimants of

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Placard at protest saying: Coping with mental distress is hard work. We demand full PIP including mobility

March 16, 2017

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PIP investigation: MPs warn of ‘broken’ system and distressed claimants

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MPs from across the House of Commons have raised fresh concerns about the assessment process for the government’s new disability benefit. Work and pensions secretary Damian Green faced further questioning about the personal independence payment (PIP) system yesterday (Wednesday), following his decision to introduce new regulations that will make it more difficult for people

Benefits and Poverty

November 17, 2016

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Damian Green faces fresh accusations of misleading MPs over disability benefits

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The work and pensions secretary is facing accusations that he misled MPs about his government’s disability benefit reforms for the second time in a month. Damian Green was responding to an urgent question about last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the “bedroom tax” discriminates unlawfully against some disabled people. His Labour shadow, Debbie Abrahams,

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Debbie Abrahams speaking in parliament, with John McDonnell sitting behind her

November 17, 2016

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Abrahams ‘uninvites’ DPO… because it wanted to talk about independent living

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Labour’s relationship with the disability movement has suffered another blow after the party invited a disabled people’s organisation to speak at a major consultation launch, and then withdrew the invitation after discovering what it was planning to speak about. The party’s shadow work and pensions secretary, Debbie Abrahams (pictured), had asked Greater Manchester Coalition

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Emily Brothers speaking at the Cambridge Union

November 3, 2016

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Brothers speaks out on Labour’s failure to appoint shadow disability minister

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One of Labour’s most prominent disabled politicians has called on her own party to demonstrate its intent to hold the government to account by appointing a shadow disability minister. Labour admitted last week that it had still not appointed a shadow minister for disabled people, nearly three weeks after party leader Jeremy Corbyn completed

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October 27, 2016

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Labour admits ‘confusion’… but still no shadow minister for disabled people

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Labour has admitted that it has still not appointed a shadow minister for disabled people, nearly three weeks after party leader Jeremy Corbyn completed a reshuffle of his top parliamentary team. There has now not been a Labour shadow minister to hold the government to account on disability issues since the promotion of Debbie

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Delegates listening to a speak at the conference

September 29, 2016

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Labour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions

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A Labour government would replace the “discredited” fitness for work test with a new assessment but it would not scrap benefit sanctions, the party’s shadow work and pensions secretary has admitted. Debbie Abrahams told a delighted party conference in Liverpool this week that Labour would scrap the work capability assessment (WCA) – which Labour

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