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Disabled anti-cuts activists have heavily criticised the TUC after it drew close links between personal independence payment (PIP) and employment in its response to a government review on the future of the disability benefit. In its submission to the Timms Review, […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found another excuse for not releasing vital information that would show why cuts were made to many disabled people’s Access to Work packages after Labour came to power in July 2024. Disability News […]
The government’s reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will violate disabled people’s rights and worsen inequality, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. In its response to the government’s SEND reform consultation, Disability Rights UK (DR UK) […]
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 figures show nearly 23,000 disabled people have failed to “migrate” from employment and support allowance to universal credit and have had their benefit claims closed, raising concerns over whether many of them have been left destitute. Disabled campaigners warned […]
The government included a bill to reform the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in yesterday’s king’s speech, but it also signalled a delay to any plans for further cuts to disability benefits. The education for all bill follows the […]
The Labour chair of the Commons committee that is supposed to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account has refused to criticise ministers who misled parliament about a cut to the Access to Work scheme. Disability News Service […]
Self-employed disabled people are waiting nearly two years for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to even begin working on their Access to Work application if they are seen as a “non-priority” case, new figures have confirmed. The figures, obtained […]
The government should halt its cuts and reforms to Access to Work and commission new research to show exactly how important the scheme is to the disabled people who rely on it to stay working, according to a new report. The […]
The government’s social security advisers have refused to criticise ministers or take any action after official documents proved that “right to try” reforms at the heart of Labour’s “landmark” plans to push more disabled people into employment were “worthless”. Disability News […]