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The government’s youth inactivity adviser swore at Disability News Service’s editor after being challenged about his failure to discuss the safeguarding risks involved in forcing tens of thousands of young disabled people into employment. A series of speeches by former New […]
Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on work and pensions reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks of the sanction-heavy approach he appears to favour. In his first […]
Several senior ministers who will play key roles in disability policy over the next few months have kept their jobs under new prime minister Andy Burnham. Burnham’s decision to keep Pat McFadden in post as work and pensions secretary caused particular […]
The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of secret reviews nearly doubled last year, according to figures hidden in DWP’s annual report. The figures were published on page 94 […]
The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MPs. Some politicians and journalists – although not Disability News […]
A Commons debate that followed last week’s king’s speech was littered with misleading statements about disabled people’s support, both from the Conservative opposition and the Labour government. Much of the hostile rhetoric on Thursday came from Helen Whately, the Conservative shadow […]
New government research has highlighted the small impact on their job chances of voluntary support provided to disabled people assessed as not fit for work, days before ministers prepare to use it as an excuse to slash their benefits. Ministers have […]
The government appears to be gearing up for fresh cuts and “radical” reforms that will increase the pressure on young disabled people to move off out-of-work disability benefits. Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden this week delivered a speech (pictured) that […]
Activists say the government’s decision to slash disabled people’s out-of-work benefits is a “recipe for greater hardship” and will risk claimants’ lives, as ministers this week pushed through cuts agreed last summer by MPs. Regulations laid in parliament this week implement […]
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”. Pat […]