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Benefits and Poverty

Four characters from the film walk down a street

October 6, 2016

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

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 of his critically-praised new film, I, Daniel Blake, which tells the story of

Benefits and Poverty

Delegates listening to a speak at the conference

September 29, 2016

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 week that Labour would scrap the work capability assessment (WCA) – which Labour

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

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