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Labour conference: De Cordova calls for a ‘Labour alternative’ to universal credit

By John Pring on 27th September 2018 Category: Politics

Labour conference: De Cordova calls for a ‘Labour alternative’ to universal credit
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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has called on her party to come up with its own alternative to the government’s flawed universal credit benefit system. Marsha de Cordova (pictured) moved further this week than any of her shadow frontbench colleagues […]

DWP’s secret benefit deaths reviews: Universal credit death linked to claimant commitment ‘threats’ 

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s secret benefit deaths reviews: Universal credit death linked to claimant commitment ‘threats’ 
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A secret Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) review into the death of a claimant of universal credit (UC) has criticised the “overtly threatening” nature of the conditions they had to accept when signing up to the new benefit system. The […]

Hope for major social security ‘brutality’ campaign after ‘breakthrough’ Labour meeting

By John Pring on 13th September 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Hope for major social security ‘brutality’ campaign after ‘breakthrough’ Labour meeting
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Many of the disabled activists who have played a key role in exposing the harm caused by the government’s social security cuts and reforms have come together for a “breakthrough” campaign meeting attended by five Labour shadow ministers. Labour’s shadow chancellor […]

Members raise concerns over Disability Labour’s ‘consistent failure’

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Politics

Members raise concerns over Disability Labour’s ‘consistent failure’
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Disabled Labour activists have gone public with their concerns about the “consistent failure” of the organisation set up to build links between the party and the disability movement. They are set to call for major changes to Disability Labour at its […]

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Two opposition parties are writing urgent letters to work and pensions secretary Esther McVey – while a third is demanding an investigation – about a possible cover-up over documents linking the “fitness for work” test with the deaths of benefit claimants. […]

‘Failing’ DWP announces ‘sixth review’ of benefit records after latest foul-ups

By John Pring on 28th June 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Failing’ DWP announces ‘sixth review’ of benefit records after latest foul-ups
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) looks set to have to carry out six separate trawls through the records of disabled people unfairly deprived of benefits because of serious errors by senior civil servants. The minister for disabled people, Sarah […]

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again

By John Pring on 21st June 2018 Category: Human Rights

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again
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The minister for disabled people has been caught misleading MPs – again – as she tried to defend her government’s repeated breaches of the UN disability convention. It was the second time in five months that Sarah Newton (pictured) has misled […]

Atos and Capita win PIP contract extension ‘because DWP is chained to a corpse’

By John Pring on 7th June 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos and Capita win PIP contract extension ‘because DWP is chained to a corpse’
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The government’s decision to extend the contracts of two discredited companies that carry out disability benefit assessments has been branded “appalling”, “shocking” and “a complete con”. The move has also been criticised by the Scottish government. Sarah Newton, the minister for […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’

By John Pring on 31st May 2018 Category: Politics

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Government ‘has created hostile environment for disabled people’
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The government has created a “hostile environment” for disabled people just as it has for members of the Windrush generation, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has told trade unionists. Marsha de Cordova (pictured) described herself as a “grand-daughter of the […]

Video catches McVey’s misleading claims about disability job stats

By John Pring on 17th May 2018 Category: Employment

Video catches McVey’s misleading claims about disability job stats
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Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey has been caught making misleading claims on social media about the number of disabled people in work. McVey had recorded a short video clip (pictured) welcoming this week’s new employment figures, and it was sent […]

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