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Justice for Jodey Whiting: Mum brands DWP’s petition response ‘a joke’

By John Pring on 11th April 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey Whiting: Mum brands DWP’s petition response ‘a joke’
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The furious mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after repeated safeguarding failings by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has branded DWP’s response to a parliamentary petition set up in her daughter’s name “a joke”. Joy […]

Ministers know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach

By John Pring on 6th October 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach
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Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making disabled people’s health worse, and is increasing the risk of suicides, the award-winning film director Ken Loach has told Disability News Service (DNS). He was speaking ahead of the national release […]

Labour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions
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A Labour government would replace the “discredited” fitness for work test with a new assessment but it would not scrap benefit sanctions, the party’s shadow work and pensions secretary has admitted. Debbie Abrahams told a delighted party conference in Liverpool this […]

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