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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Disabled activists held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice this week as legal efforts to force the government to reduce the discriminatory impact of its controversial “fitness for work” test approached their conclusion. The long-running case has been taken […]