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Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Employment

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call
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Disabled activists have called for a Labour MP to resign as chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, after he called for employers to be allowed to pay some disabled people less than the minimum wage. Frank Field (pictured) […]

DWP secrecy over benefit-related suicides

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secrecy over benefit-related suicides
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Civil servants have refused to release information that would show how many secret reviews the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out into benefit-related suicides in the last 15 months. The refusal emerged in a response to a freedom […]

Disabled peers lead fresh efforts to halt ‘offensive’ WRAG cut

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled peers lead fresh efforts to halt ‘offensive’ WRAG cut
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Three disabled peers have led fresh efforts to halt government plans to cut £1, 500 a year from hundreds of thousands of claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. The House of Lords overwhelmingly passed an amendment – later rejected by MPs* – […]

Disabled peers inflict heavy defeat as government loses its WRAG cuts

By John Pring on 28th January 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled peers inflict heavy defeat as government loses its WRAG cuts
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The government has suffered a crushing defeat in the House of Lords over its plans to cut future support for hundreds of thousands of disabled people found “not fit for work”, thanks to an amendment proposed by a disabled peer. Lord […]

DWP refuses to back down over annual disability employment report

By John Pring on 28th January 2016 Category: Employment

DWP refuses to back down over annual disability employment report
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A disabled peer has failed to persuade the government to publish an annual report on progress towards its target of halving the disability employment gap. Baroness [Jane] Campbell had proposed an amendment to the government’s welfare reform and work bill during […]

Disabled people are falling through holes in local welfare safety net, warn MPs

By John Pring on 14th January 2016 Category: Housing

Disabled people are falling through holes in local welfare safety net, warn MPs
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A committee of MPs has called on the government to stop local authorities discriminating against disabled people who need financial help following the introduction of the “bedroom tax”. The work and pensions select committee’s report on the local welfare safety net […]

WRAG cut ‘could harm health and damage work prospects’

By John Pring on 11th December 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

WRAG cut ‘could harm health and damage work prospects’
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Government plans to cut support for many disabled people on out-of-work benefits could harm their mental health and make it harder for them to return to work, according to a review led by a disabled peer. The review by the disabled […]

No promises from minister on benefit cuts for disabled people

By John Pring on 12th June 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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A minister has refused to promise that the government will protect disabled people from further benefit cuts in next month’s budget. Lord Freud, the welfare reform minister David Cameron, had promised during the election campaign that he wanted to “enhance” and […]

Government cuts ‘could see disabled people slide back to the bad old days’

By John Pring on 5th June 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government cuts ‘could see disabled people slide back to the bad old days’
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Government policies on social care, health and benefits risk sending disabled people sliding back to “the bad old days of dependency, isolation and poverty”, a disabled peer has warned. In a Lords debate on the Queen’s speech, Baroness [Jane] Campbell urged […]

Halfon joins cabinet, while former disability minister will oversee care reforms

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Politics

Halfon joins cabinet, while former disability minister will oversee care reforms
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David Cameron’s new government will include a campaigning disabled MP and a former minister for disabled people from the last time the Tories had an absolute Commons majority, 18 years ago. The prime minister announced this week that Robert Halfon, the […]

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