Ideas to replace WCA with new assessment framework win some support
Disabled activists have delivered a generally positive response to fresh ideas on how to replace…
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Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement
A disabled researcher has suggested a way to bring the hundreds of thousands of people…
Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running…
ESA figures show ‘very disturbing’ drop in number placed in support group
“Very disturbing” new government figures show a steep fall in the proportion of disabled people…
IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith appears set to scrap the “fitness for work”…
Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’
Ministers are considering plans to slash benefit payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled people,…