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Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Politics

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits
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Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ chaotic last-ditch concessions to rebels that removed a significant chunk of their cuts bill. Marsha de Cordova, Marie Tidball and Emma Lewell all voted […]

Timms misleads MPs on DWP transparency and cover-ups, as he gives evidence on PIP review

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Timms misleads MPs on DWP transparency and cover-ups, as he gives evidence on PIP review
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The social security and disability minister has misled MPs after suggesting he has ushered in a new era of openness and transparency in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Sir Stephen Timms told members of the work and pensions committee […]

Government offers three clues that it is set to plough ahead with cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government offers three clues that it is set to plough ahead with cuts to disability benefits
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Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending review failed to offer any suggestion of a U-turn. The government had already given two other major signs that it […]

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits
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Major insurance companies – including one that spent years lobbying the government to tighten eligibility for out-of-work disability benefits – have refused to say if they pushed the government to introduce controversial cuts to one of those benefits. Not one of […]

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern
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Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a dramatic “die-in” outside a London […]

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped her benefits has called for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the department’s actions. Joy Dove […]

Petition aims to unite opposition to disability benefits green paper and force MPs to debate all cuts

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Petition aims to unite opposition to disability benefits green paper and force MPs to debate all cuts
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A new petition backed by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) aims to unite opposition to the government’s “devastating” disability benefit cuts and reforms by calling for every one of the measures to be abandoned. While a string of petitions have focused on […]

Reform silence after Farage suggests again that he favours sweeping cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Politics

Reform silence after Farage suggests again that he favours sweeping cuts to disability benefits
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The right-wing populist party Reform UK has given a rare glimpse of its disability policies, after its leader Nigel Farage suggested he was strongly in favour of cuts to disabled people’s benefits. The party’s supporters have attempted to make political capital […]

Starmer faces disabled people’s fears as senior MPs quiz him over benefit cuts

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Starmer faces disabled people’s fears as senior MPs quiz him over benefit cuts
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The prime minister has been forced to face the fears of disabled people who are unable to work and have been left feeling “full of panic” and “physically sick” at the thought of benefit cuts that could leave future claimants £3,000 […]

DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street
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Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday (Wednesday). Estimates suggest more […]

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