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Campaigners have questioned a series of claims by the minister for disabled people that there have been substantial improvements to major government disability programmes. Justin Tomlinson, who was appointed to the post in May, spoke this afternoon (Thursday) to two separate […]
A disabled researcher and campaigner has criticised a new report by a cross-party committee of MPs for failing to acknowledge fully the “perverse contradiction” at the heart of the government’s specialist employment programme. Catherine Hale, who wrote a well-received review on the failure […]
Planned cuts to out-of-work disability benefits will lead to more “tragedies” in which disabled people will lose their lives, Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people has told fellow MPs. Debbie Abrahams, a former public health consultant, was speaking as she […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of insulting disabled people by telling them to “work your way out of poverty”. His speech to the Conservative conference was short on policy detail but heavy with rhetoric, including a […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked new concerns after releasing “bizarre” figures that suggest ministers plan to cut the number of people eligible for out-of-work disability benefits by a third in 2017-18. The statistics were provided by employment […]
The government is to slash financial support for hundreds of thousands of disabled people on out-of-work benefits, as part of measures that will cut £13 billion-a-year from the social security budget by 2020-21. The chancellor, George Osborne (pictured), announced in yesterday’s […]
The proportion of disabled people living in poverty rose sharply in the fourth year of the coalition government, according to official figures. Disabled campaigners say the rise was an inevitable consequence of a string of cuts to disabled people’s support under […]
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 […]
The information watchdog has ordered the government to publish hugely controversial figures that will update the number of people who have died while claiming out-of-work disability benefits. Activists have been calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish […]
A disabled woman says her life is at risk following a “barrage” of texts and phone calls from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), threatening – unlawfully – to remove her benefits if she failed to attend a work-focused interview. […]