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Commission on Social Security

Support for user-led plan to replace universal credit… and treat all claimants with respect

By John Pring on 13th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Support for user-led plan to replace universal credit… and treat all claimants with respect
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Disabled people’s organisations and allies have offered strong support for a user-led plan to build a social security system that treats all benefit claimants with “dignity, fairness and respect”, and replaces the government’s “chaotic” universal credit. The plan has been drawn […]

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will each miss out on £650 in crucial support, because of the government’s failure to target new cost-of-living funding at some of the groups most in need, disabled campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations said […]

Disbelief at chancellor’s “appalling” refusal to target support on disabled people

By John Pring on 24th March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disbelief at chancellor’s “appalling” refusal to target support on disabled people
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Disabled people have reacted with disbelief to the chancellor’s “cruel” decision to all-but-ignore those who rely on benefits in yesterday’s spring statement, despite the cost-of-living crisis. In his 3,500-word speech, Rishi Sunak (pictured) announced a rise in the starting threshold of […]

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system

By John Pring on 27th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
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A user-led commission has called for a “transformational” reboot of the social security system to replace the current “inadequate, demeaning, inefficient” structure that “deliberately scapegoats” unemployed and disabled people. In its final proposals, following more than three years of work, the Commission […]

Overwhelming support for user-led commission’s new vision for social security

By John Pring on 14th October 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Overwhelming support for user-led commission’s new vision for social security
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Proposals by a user-led commission for sweeping reform of the social security system – including a new “extra costs” benefit for disabled people – have secured overwhelming support in a consultation exercise. More than 1,100 people responded to a draft plan […]

Expert benefit claimants devise social security system ‘no longer guided by stereotypes’

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Expert benefit claimants devise social security system ‘no longer guided by stereotypes’
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A ground-breaking group of service-users have devised a draft plan for replacing the current working-age benefits system with something that is no longer “guided by stereotypes and myths about disabled people and people in poverty”. The Commission on Social Security, led […]

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust
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Disabled people and others with personal experience of claiming benefits are leading a ground-breaking project to devise a new social security system, in which claimants would be treated with dignity, trust and respect. The Commission on Social Security, led by Experts […]

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