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Benefits and Poverty

Roy Bard in front of a banner saying 'Is There Justice Or Just Us?'

August 10, 2017 0

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using lost appointment letters for face-to-face assessments as an excuse for turning down disabled people’s benefit claims, to help it cut spending on social security, it has been claimed. Concerns have been raised about both the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP) – which helps meet

Benefits and Poverty

April 6, 2017

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PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among Atos and Capita assessors

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The former civil servant commissioned by the government to review its new disability benefit has refused to accept there is any dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out assessments, despite being shown significant evidence of wrongdoing. Disability News Service (DNS) has twice contacted Paul Gray’s personal independence payment (PIP) review team with evidence

Activism and Campaigning

Paul Farmer speaking to protesters outside Mind's headquarters

November 3, 2016

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Mind boss lies to protesters over DWP contracts

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Mind’s chief executive has lied to service-users and other disabled activists who were protesting about his charity’s close links with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Disabled activists who gathered outside Mind’s headquarters on Monday declared “war” on the charity because of its support for DWP policies that they say have damaged people

Activism and Campaigning

Sandra Daniels sitting in wheelchair speaking into a loudspeaker

July 14, 2016

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Protesters bring ‘rotten PIP’ message to the core of Westminster

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Disabled people across the country have marched stopped traffic and blocked the office entrances of government contractors as part of a national day of action that drew attention to a disability benefit they say is “rotten to the core”. Campaigners believe the personal independence payment (PIP) system was only introduced as a replacement for

Benefits and Poverty

Paula Peters holding a sign saying 'Pants 2 Normal IDS'

June 23, 2016

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PIP figures fuel concerns over cuts, while activists plan day of action

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Only about seven in 10 disabled people who were previously claiming disability living allowance (DLA) are being found eligible for the government’s new disability benefit, official figures have revealed. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show that just 71 per cent of DLA recipients who applied for the new personal independence payment

Crime

March 24, 2016

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Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths

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Disabled activists are calling for Iain Duncan Smith to face a criminal investigation over his refusal to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, which led to “countless deaths” over the last six years. They want to hold Duncan Smith – and his former employment minister Chris Grayling

Benefits and Poverty

Street sign showing Parliament Street and Whitehall

March 10, 2016

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Six years on, and still no DWP progress on ‘further medical evidence’

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Work and pensions ministers have been accused of another attempt to avoid improving the safety of its “fitness for work” test for benefit claimants with mental health conditions. A year after ministers told a tribunal – following a lengthy judicial review – that it would test ways to make the work capability assessment (WCA)

Activism and Campaigning

Two protesters holding up a sheet with a campaigning message on it

March 10, 2016

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Protesters pledge to fight on against GP link-up with work advisors

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Disabled activists have pledged to continue the fight to halt a scheme that places welfare-to-work advisors from a discredited US outsourcing giant in GP practices. They spoke out after a protest by scores of activists blocked a busy central London roundabout for half an hour on Friday afternoon, bringing traffic to a standstill. The

Activism and Campaigning

February 4, 2016

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Protesters to march on GP surgery over Maximus job coach project

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Disabled activists are to march on a surgery next month in protest at its involvement in a government scheme that is placing welfare-to-work advisors from a discredited US outsourcing giant in GP practices. Six surgeries in Islington, north London, are taking part in the year-long pilot scheme run and funded by the Department for

Politics

September 18, 2015

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Corbyn’s Labour victory ‘offers hope to disabled people’

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Disabled activists have greeted the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the Labour party’s new leader with huge optimism, and as an opportunity to fight back against government austerity. Many campaigners recognised his past commitment to disability rights, and his record of speaking out on austerity policies. They also noted that he made his first

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