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The government has refused to explain why it has failed to publish any minutes from a board of experts set up 17 months ago to examine “economic inactivity” and particularly to focus on people not working due to “long-term sickness”. The […]
The proportion of working-age disabled people in England who are “economically inactive” is not “spiralling” and may even have fallen over the last nine years, new official government statistics suggest. Although it is impossible to draw firm conclusions from the figures, […]
A government reshuffle has raised concerns over a possible new hardline approach from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers, and further delays to Labour action on accessible housing and education. The major reshuffle saw Liz Kendall sacked and replaced by […]
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall was on the verge of lying to MPs yesterday as she argued with a disabled MP about misleading comments she made in parliament on disability benefit cuts. Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat work and pensions […]
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system. The […]
Labour ministers are considering whether to start means-testing personal independence payment, which is likely to cut billions of pounds a year more from benefits spending, new information secured from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed. The highly controversial […]
Disabled activists say they “will not give a single inch” in their resistance to billions of pounds of cuts confirmed yesterday by the Labour government in its new universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Other than minor concessions by work […]
Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending review failed to offer any suggestion of a U-turn. The government had already given two other major signs that it […]
More than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Labour government. In a letter to the chief executive of […]
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has refused to apologise after repeatedly misleading MPs by suggesting that her planned cuts of billions of pounds to personal independence payment (PIP) were linked to supporting disabled people into work. On four occasions in […]