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Some disabled people forced to transfer across to the government’s new disability benefit are missing out on thousands of pounds of backdated payments, thanks to “grossly unfair” rules, say campaigners. Under the new personal independence payment (PIP) rules, existing disability living […]
A disabled campaigner had more than £70 a week of her disability benefit stripped from her for three months because she could not attend a back-to-work workshop that a government assessment had already concluded would be inaccessible to her. Catherine Hale […]
Disabled people are far more likely to be successful in a claim for the much-criticised employment and support allowance (ESA) than the benefit it is replacing, incapacity benefit (IB), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The figures came in a response […]
A disabled woman has described how she has been made to feel “helpless” after waiting more than a year to be assessed for the government’s new disability benefit. Beverley Daniel lodged her claim on 5 September 2013 and despite calling the […]
Ministers have refused to say why the number of disabled people having benefits temporarily removed for breaching strict conditions has soared in the first three months of this year. The new figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show […]
The government has been accused of failing in its duty of care towards disabled people, after an inquest heard how a disabled woman wrote a suicide note blaming the “bedroom tax” for her decision to kill herself. Stephanie Bottrill, from Solihull, […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been ridiculed for delivering a major speech about his sweeping welfare reforms, without mentioning the disastrous impact that many of the changes are having on disabled people. Duncan Smith spoke of how the […]
The minister for disabled people has been urged by his Labour shadow to take urgent action to tackle the lengthy backlogs and delays plaguing the government’s new disability benefit. Labour’s Kate Green said in her letter to Mark Harper this week […]
A work and pensions minister has been caught giving misleading information to the government’s own benefits advice body about the possibility of assessing the overall impact on disabled people of its sweeping welfare cuts and reforms. Lord Freud, minister for welfare […]
A disabled activist is considering appealing after a court rejected his claim that a government consultation on plans to tighten eligibility for its new disability benefit was unfair and unlawful. The judicial review was brought by disabled activist and blogger Steven […]