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Evidence mounts of disability benefits white paper’s fatal flaws

By John Pring on 23rd March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Evidence mounts of disability benefits white paper’s fatal flaws
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Evidence is mounting that government plans to reform the disability benefits system are fatally flawed. Last week’s Transforming Support white paper appears to be slowly unravelling, with a growing number of serious concerns being raised by disabled activists, politicians, charities and […]

DLA ‘disallowances’ plummeted after death of Philippa Day, DWP figures show

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DLA ‘disallowances’ plummeted after death of Philippa Day, DWP figures show
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The number of people who had their disability benefits stopped for failing to return a reassessment form plummeted following the death of a young disabled mum in 2019, new figures have revealed. The figures show that, from 2016 to 2019, there […]

Concern over DWP’s ‘unacceptable’ failure to answer scores of key questions

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern over DWP’s ‘unacceptable’ failure to answer scores of key questions
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Work and pensions ministers have refused to answer scores of questions from MPs on issues that are vital to disabled people, research by Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. In the last six months, ministers have repeatedly argued that they cannot […]

Pursglove refuses to probe rapid rise in PIP ‘disallowances’

By John Pring on 23rd February 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Pursglove refuses to probe rapid rise in PIP ‘disallowances’
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The minister for disabled people has refused to investigate why the number of disabled people whose disability benefits were stopped when they failed to return a vital form rose by more than 450 per cent in four years. The figures, released earlier […]

Call for urgent investigation into DWP’s shocking PIP figures

By John Pring on 9th February 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for urgent investigation into DWP’s shocking PIP figures
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A minister has been told to carry out an urgent investigation after the number of disabled people whose disability benefits were stopped when they failed to return a vital form rose by more than 450 per cent in four years. The […]

Minister ridiculed over ‘global leadership on disability inclusion’ claim

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Human Rights

Minister ridiculed over ‘global leadership on disability inclusion’ claim
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The new minister for disabled people has been ridiculed for claiming the government has a record of providing “global leadership on disability inclusion”, six years after it was found guilty of “grave” and “systematic” violations of the UN disability convention. Tom […]

Mental health reforms ‘must go further’, MPs and peers are told

By John Pring on 13th October 2022 Category: Politics

Mental health reforms ‘must go further’, MPs and peers are told
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A user-led organisation has warned MPs and peers that the government’s planned mental health reforms do not go far enough and have failed to engage with disabled activists who have been pushing for a more rights-based approach. Mary Sadid, policy manager […]

Disabled MPs and peers pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Politics

Disabled MPs and peers pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth
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Disabled MPs and peers have delivered personal tributes to Queen Elizabeth II, as members of both Houses of Parliament responded to the news of her death. The crossbench peer Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson said the Queen’s “unstinting support and knowledge of the […]

Public order bill will criminalise disabled protesters, says MP

By John Pring on 26th May 2022 Category: Politics

Public order bill will criminalise disabled protesters, says MP
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A disabled MP has accused the government of “playing with people’s lives” and warned that its new public order bill will criminalise disabled people and other minority groups. Marsha de Cordova, a former shadow minister for disabled people, told fellow MPs […]

Government ‘must act’ on omission of disabled people from Covid inquiry terms of reference

By John Pring on 28th April 2022 Category: Politics

Government ‘must act’ on omission of disabled people from Covid inquiry terms of reference
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The government’s failure to include a “specific reference” to disabled people in the draft terms of reference for the public inquiry into the Covid pandemic is a “grave omission” and must be corrected, a disabled MP has told the House of […]

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