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Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’
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Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. In her first interview since releasing her resignation […]

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
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A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Stephen Timms (pictured) made the admission as he told the […]

Timms says cuts must go ahead, despite being reminded of risk that disabled claimants could die

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Timms says cuts must go ahead, despite being reminded of risk that disabled claimants could die
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The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits must go ahead, despite the risk that they will once again cause countless deaths of disabled claimants. Sir Stephen Timms was […]

Timms misleads MPs on DWP transparency and cover-ups, as he gives evidence on PIP review

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Timms misleads MPs on DWP transparency and cover-ups, as he gives evidence on PIP review
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The social security and disability minister has misled MPs after suggesting he has ushered in a new era of openness and transparency in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Sir Stephen Timms told members of the work and pensions committee […]

Ministers are secretly considering means-testing PIP, DWP admits, despite pledge in green paper

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers are secretly considering means-testing PIP, DWP admits, despite pledge in green paper
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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 […]

‘We will not give a single inch,’ disabled activists vow, as Kendall publishes disability cuts bill

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘We will not give a single inch,’ disabled activists vow, as Kendall publishes disability cuts bill
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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 […]

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths
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A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. The […]

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published
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Rebel Labour MPs delivered their final warnings to the government this week, ahead of yesterday’s publication of a government bill that will cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. A group of 15 Labour backbenchers (pictured) took […]

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits
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Major insurance companies – including one that spent years lobbying the government to tighten eligibility for out-of-work disability benefits – have refused to say if they pushed the government to introduce controversial cuts to one of those benefits. Not one of […]

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting
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The disability minister has been accused of a “shocking lack of empathy” after walking past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about government plans to cut disability benefits by billions of pounds. Representatives […]

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Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’

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Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims

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Timms says cuts must go ahead, despite being reminded of risk that disabled claimants could die

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Timms misleads MPs on DWP transparency and cover-ups, as he gives evidence on PIP review

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