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A new user-led campaign and report aim to highlight the experiences of disabled people hit by the government’s welfare reforms, and encourage them to vote at next year’s general election. From Cuts… To Resistance, a report by the Reclaiming Our Futures […]
Disabled benefit claimants have complained after being targeted by government letters telling them to attend short-notice “work-focussed interviews” (WFIs), but failing to mention that attendance was voluntary. Research by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has found that employment and support allowance […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out 60 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths in less than three years, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. DWP released the figures in response to a series of Freedom of Information Act […]