Catherine Hale

July 5, 2018 0

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 with chronic illness under the umbrella of the disabled people’s movement. Catherine Hale (pictured), who has lived with a diagnosis of ME for nearly 30 years, hopes that her new discussion paper will build bridges between the disabled people’s

Benefits and Poverty

February 22, 2018 0

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running a discriminatory benefit sanctions regime, following the publication of new research. Academic Ben Baumberg Geiger has found that more than 900,000 disabled claimants of the mainstream out-of-work benefit jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) have been sanctioned since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition

Benefits and Poverty

September 15, 2016

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ESA figures show ‘very disturbing’ drop in number placed in support group

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“Very disturbing” new government figures show a steep fall in the proportion of disabled people being found eligible for out-of-work disability benefits. Disabled campaigners fear the figures show the government is cutting spending on disability benefits “below the radar”, after being forced to abandon its attempts to reduce expenditure on personal independence payment (PIP)

Benefits and Poverty

August 28, 2015

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IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making

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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith appears set to scrap the “fitness for work” test championed by successive Labour, coalition and Conservative governments, but there are fears that its replacement could prove even more damaging to disabled people. Duncan Smith (pictured) – in comments not included in a written version of a speech

Benefits and Poverty

July 3, 2015

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Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’

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Ministers are considering plans to slash benefit payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, by scrapping a key part of the main out-of-work disability benefit, employment and support allowance (ESA), according to the BBC. The BBC reports that a leaked Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) document describes ESA as a “passive” benefit

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Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows

ESA figures show ‘very disturbing’ drop in number placed in support group

IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making

Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’