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WOW petition debate: Campaigners ready to plot their next move

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

WOW petition debate: Campaigners ready to plot their next move
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Activists hope an historic House of Commons debate will prove a significant step towards forcing the government to assess the overall impact of its welfare reforms on disabled people, and to scrap the hated “fitness for work” test. Backbench MPs agreed […]

WOW petition debate: Government refusal is due to ‘fear of revolt’

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

WOW petition debate: Government refusal is due to ‘fear of revolt’
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MPs have backed demands for the government to assess the true damage caused by its welfare reforms to the lives of disabled people, after an historic debate in the House of Commons. The debate was secured by the Labour MP John […]

Peer to quiz watchdog over failure to probe Atos PIP contract concerns

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Peer to quiz watchdog over failure to probe Atos PIP contract concerns
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A peer is to ask the public spending watchdog why a long-awaited probe into the government’s new disability benefit ignored serious concerns over the award of a £184 million assessment contract. A National Audit Office (NAO) director told Lord [David] Alton […]

Anger over ‘libellous’ Atos ‘death threat’ claims

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Crime, News Archive

Anger over ‘libellous’ Atos ‘death threat’ claims
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The government’s “fitness for work” contractor has failed to produce a single piece of evidence to back up its claim that it is withdrawing from the contract because of “death threats” against its staff. The claims were first reported by the […]

PIP reforms could affect 100 different services, councils warned

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

PIP reforms could affect 100 different services, councils warned
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Scrapping disability living allowance (DLA) and replacing it with the new personal independence payment (PIP) could affect access to more than 100 local authority services, according to the disabled councillor who leads on equality for the capital’s councils. London Councils has […]

Penning in tangle after secret order is revealed

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Penning in tangle after secret order is revealed
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was yet again mired in confusion today (27 February) after the minister for disabled people failed to tell MPs that he had called a halt to most repeat “fitness for work” tests. The decision […]

‘Bedroom tax five’ will fight on after ‘baffling’ appeal court defeat

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

‘Bedroom tax five’ will fight on after ‘baffling’ appeal court defeat
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Five disabled people who face losing their homes because of the much-criticised “bedroom tax” have vowed to fight on, after a “baffling” court of appeal ruling that the new housing benefit regulations are lawful. The court ruled today (21 February) that […]

Government figures provide strongest evidence yet of Atos bias

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Government figures provide strongest evidence yet of Atos bias
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New official figures show that the government contractor Atos Healthcare is 50 times more likely to recommend wrongly that someone is “fit for work” than it is to make an error in finding someone not fit for work. The government statistics […]

More than 100,000 disabled people had benefits ‘sanctioned’

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

More than 100,000 disabled people had benefits ‘sanctioned’
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More than 100,000 disabled people had their unemployment benefits removed in just one year as a punishment for not complying with strict new government rules, according to official figures. The figures show that 104,200 disabled claimants of jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) were […]

Tight lips among Atos staff as protesters tell them ‘enough is enough’

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Tight lips among Atos staff as protesters tell them ‘enough is enough’
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Staff working for the outsourcing giant Atos refused to comment this week as disabled activists protested outside their head office about the company’s involvement with the government’s “fitness for work” test. The protest near Euston station in London was one of […]

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