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Benefits and Poverty

October 26, 2017 0

DWP agrees to test new approach in latest sign of softer approach to sanctions

Ministers are to test a new approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time, in the latest sign that the government is finally listening to calls to soften its much-criticised sanctions regime. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has agreed to trial handing out warnings instead of

Employment

Frank Field speaking at a session of the work and pensions committee

September 21, 2017 0

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

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Disabled activists have called for a Labour MP to resign as chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, after he called for employers to be allowed to pay some disabled people less than the minimum wage. Frank Field (pictured) made the call in a new collection of essays on employment and disabled

Benefits and Poverty

Penny Mordaunt giving evidence to the work and pensions committee

April 6, 2017 1

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

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The minister for disabled people has been accused of making “false promises” that she would reduce the living costs of people facing cuts of nearly £30 a week to their out-of-work disability benefits. From this week, new employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) will receive about

Human Rights

Penny Mordauny giving evidence to a parliamentary committee

December 8, 2016

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Watchdogs snubbed by minister after raising concerns over UN ‘violations’ report

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Four human rights and equality watchdogs have been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about how her government dismissed a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention. The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) said last month

Politics

Philip Hammond delivering the autumn statement in the Commons

November 24, 2016

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Chancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’

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The chancellor has shocked disabled activists by ignoring the social care funding crisis in his autumn statement, and refusing to scrap a planned cut to employment and support allowance (ESA). Despite weeks of lobbying from disabled people, politicians – including some Tory MPs – and charities, he announced no new money for adult social

Housing

Paul Rutherford sitting next to Warren on a red sofa

January 28, 2016

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Bedroom tax discriminates against disabled children, say appeal court judges

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The government’s “bedroom tax” discriminates unlawfully against disabled children, the court of appeal has ruled. The appeal court, which overturned a high court decision, was hearing the case of two disabled grandparents who care for their disabled grandson in an adapted three-bedroom bungalow in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The court also ruled that the bedroom tax

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DWP agrees to test new approach in latest sign of softer approach to sanctions

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

Watchdogs snubbed by minister after raising concerns over UN ‘violations’ report

Chancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’

Bedroom tax discriminates against disabled children, say appeal court judges