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Benefits and Poverty

IDS speech ‘ignores the devastating truth’ of his welfare reforms

By John Pring on 15th August 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

IDS speech ‘ignores the devastating truth’ of his welfare reforms
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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 […]

Harper urged to act over PIP delays

By John Pring on 15th August 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Harper urged to act over PIP delays
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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 […]

Minister caught misleading government’s benefits advisors

By John Pring on 1st August 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

Minister caught misleading government’s benefits advisors
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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 […]

Appeal possible after 20-metres PIP setback

By John Pring on 25th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Appeal possible after 20-metres PIP setback
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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 […]

Osborne guilty of ‘astounding hypocrisy’ over Motability

By John Pring on 25th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Independent Living, News Archive

Osborne guilty of ‘astounding hypocrisy’ over Motability
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The chancellor is facing allegations of “astounding hypocrisy” after being pictured handing a disabled man the keys to a Motability car, despite being responsible for slashing spending on the disability benefit used to lease such vehicles. George Osborne, who was attending […]

‘Fitness for work’ test ‘needs more than a fundamental redesign’

By John Pring on 25th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

‘Fitness for work’ test ‘needs more than a fundamental redesign’
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A new report by MPs that calls for a “fundamental redesign” of the much-criticised process used to determine eligibility for out-of-work disability benefits does not go far enough, say disabled campaigners. The Commons work and pensions select committee says that the […]

Ministers ‘must come clean’ about ESA story, says MP

By John Pring on 18th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Ministers ‘must come clean’ about ESA story, says MP
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A disabled MP has called on ministers to reveal the source of an article that claimed social security claimants in mental distress could soon be forced to undergo talking therapy – or have their benefits removed. The idea was floated by […]

Official figures ‘underestimate disability poverty by one million people’

By John Pring on 18th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Official figures ‘underestimate disability poverty by one million people’
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The number of disabled people living in poverty is about one million higher than official figures, according to a new report. The authors of the report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) told the all-party parliamentary group on disability this week […]

Ministers humiliated over cumulative impact assessment

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

Ministers humiliated over cumulative impact assessment
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Work and pensions ministers are facing acute embarrassment after losing their main excuse for refusing to assess the overall impact of their welfare cuts and reforms on disabled people. Ministers have repeatedly insisted that such a cumulative impact assessment (CIA) would […]

PIP 20 metre battle nears conclusion

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

PIP 20 metre battle nears conclusion
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A disabled campaigner has asked a court to rule that a government consultation on plans to tighten eligibility for its new disability benefit was unfair and unlawful. The judicial review has been brought by disabled activist and blogger Stephen Sumpter, while […]

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