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Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in two years, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. The […]
Just 17 peers were willing to support disabled people this week, following disablist comments by both Tories and a Labour member as the Lords rubber-stamped a bill to remove billions of pounds a year from disabled people seeking out-of-work benefits. During […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally released excerpts of secret reports that show how its errors contributed to the deaths of universal credit (UC) claimants, just days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year-cuts to the UC health element. […]
The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits. The […]
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall was on the verge of lying to MPs yesterday as she argued with a disabled MP about misleading comments she made in parliament on disability benefit cuts. Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat work and pensions […]
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system. The […]
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives. Despite efforts to defeat the much-changed bill, or […]
There is a race against time to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital evidence about flaws in the universal credit system before parliament passes a bill that will cut billions of pounds from disabled people’s support. […]
A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Minutes of a meeting in March […]
Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite forcing ministers into last-minute changes that scrapped all their planned cuts to personal independence payment (PIP). Chaotic events in parliament on Tuesday, and three […]