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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 […]

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern
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Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a dramatic “die-in” outside a London […]

Labour government faces questions over why it stuffed access to elected office committee with Tories

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Politics

Labour government faces questions over why it stuffed access to elected office committee with Tories
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The Labour government has refused to explain why more than a third of the members of a new steering group that will target the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people have close links to the Conservative party. Nearly a […]

Disabled students set to protest over cuts in support

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Education

Disabled students set to protest over cuts in support
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Scores of disabled students are to demonstrate next week in protest at their university’s “discriminatory” decision to secretly introduce cuts to their support. They say the University of Derby has removed the entitlement to support from many of the disabled students […]

DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hidden the truth from a coroner about its role in a disabled woman’s suicide, allowing ministers to avoid having to explain how they would prevent more benefit claimants taking their own lives. Helga […]

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped her benefits has called for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the department’s actions. Joy Dove […]

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting
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A coroner has found that the decision of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to wrongly stop a disabled woman’s benefits after a string of safeguarding failings was the “trigger” for her to take her own life. Coroner Clare Bailey […]

Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits
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Disabled union activists repeatedly challenged a Labour minister at a conference this week on the government’s plans to cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits.  There was prolonged applause when one disabled delegate, Mark Anthony Bastiani, from […]

Activists consider legal action after DWP cancels only face-to-face benefit cuts consultation event in Wales

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activists consider legal action after DWP cancels only face-to-face benefit cuts consultation event in Wales
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Disabled activists are considering taking legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after it scrapped the only event due to take place in Wales as part of the consultation on its disability benefits green paper. They say MPs […]

Beresford’s book shows how disability movement can be part of ‘antidote’ to neoliberalism

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Beresford’s book shows how disability movement can be part of ‘antidote’ to neoliberalism
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A new book by a leading disabled academic-activist explores how people-powered movements – including the disability movement – can end the dominance of the “man-made disaster” that is neoliberalism. Professor Peter Beresford (pictured) has been at the heart of the movement […]

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