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Disabled activists – and a suspended Labour MP – have told campaigners that they can win the battle to force the government into a U-turn over its planned cuts to disability benefits. But they also warned the Disabled People Against Cuts […]
Disabled campaigners have called on the government to set up a “genuinely independent” panel that would investigate deaths linked to the actions and failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They say that such a panel would expose the […]
A new government bill would force banks to carry out “mass surveillance” of millions of innocent disabled people and other benefit claimants, MPs have been warned. The measures in the bill would force banks to examine individuals’ accounts for potential breaches […]
MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the actions of ministers, senior civil servants and advisers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Disability News Service […]
The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four […]
Disabled activists and unions have come together to fight what they fear will be a renewed, hostile attack on disabled people who rely on social security at next week’s budget. A parliamentary meeting this week heard disabled campaigners and senior union […]
Labour’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed its latest test on transparency after appealing against a regulator’s decision that it should release vital information from secret reports into the deaths of universal credit claimants. The information will show how […]
Disabled activists have today “thrown the gauntlet down” to the new Labour government, as more than 100 protesters gathered opposite the House of Commons to call for action to address the damage caused by 14 years of Conservative rule. They demanded […]
Disabled activists have pledged to use direct action protests to “put a stake through the heart” of the idea that disabled people can be used as scapegoats and “whipping boys” in the run-up to general elections. At an emergency meeting of […]
Disabled activists have announced a fightback against a series of “horrific” government social security reforms and have called for “active resistance” to the plans, starting with a national day of action and a protest in London early next month. A meeting […]