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A tiny detail in the disability benefits green paper that suggests the government will scrap a key protection for claimants at extreme risk of harm is a “nightmarish” demonstration of the bureaucratic violence being inflicted on disabled people, say activists. The […]
Work and pensions ministers have delayed the publication of evidence that would have explained why spending on disability benefits has been rising, just as they are announcing £5 billion in cuts to that support. On Tuesday, work and pensions secretary Liz […]
Four disabled people told MPs of the life-threatening risks that would be caused by proposed cuts to disability benefits, just a day before the government confirmed the “very, very dangerous” reforms. About 10 MPs from Labour, the SNP, the SDLP and […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a second misleading press release in consecutive weeks as it tries to trick the mainstream media into supporting its controversial cuts to disability benefits. This time, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall […]
The health and social care secretary appears to have ruled out sweeping changes to the funding system for adult social care. Matt Hancock, giving evidence about the adult social care funding crisis to a House of Lords committee on Tuesday (pictured), […]