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Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose
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Six disability campaigners have delivered scathing criticism of the government’s controversial new disability benefits reforms, in evidence to a committee of MPs. The representatives of three disabled people’s organisations and two disability charities joined a Conservative disabled peer in delivering an […]

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue

By John Pring on 18th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue
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Claimants of disability benefits who successfully overturned decisions at tribunal are being told their support could be cut off, because of a shortage of assessment professionals and a backlog of claims caused by the pandemic. Claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) […]

Disabled women reveal sexual harassment by high-profile ‘mental health advocate’

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Crime

Disabled women reveal sexual harassment by high-profile ‘mental health advocate’
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At least 20 women with mental health conditions have been sent unsolicited sexual photographs by a musician and high-profile “mental health advocate”, evidence collected by Disability News Service (DNS) suggests. DNS has heard this week from three women with mental distress […]

Activist’s book takes aim at charities ‘who facilitated war on disabled people’

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activist’s book takes aim at charities ‘who facilitated war on disabled people’
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A new book by a leading disabled activist has accused disability charities of being more interested in their own survival than in defending disabled people from a decade of cuts and oppression. In The War on Disabled People*, published next week, […]

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’
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A minister has suggested that the government would be doing a “great disservice” to disabled people if it stopped sanctioning their out-of-work benefits. The comment by Alok Sharma, the employment minister, came in correspondence with the Commons work and pensions committee […]

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income
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The failure of ministers to make a key change to the way the government will move existing benefit claimants onto universal credit could see hundreds of thousands of disabled people left without any income at all, campaigners fear. Work and pensions […]

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit migration is set for disaster, warns Lloyd

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

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit migration is set for disaster, warns Lloyd
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The impact of the “migration” of hundreds of thousands of disabled people onto universal credit from next year could prove disastrous because of the “hoops” the government will force claimants to leap through, according to a disabled MP. Stephen Lloyd, work […]

Universal credit leaves claimants with mental health problems ‘tangled in bureaucracy’

By John Pring on 12th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Universal credit leaves claimants with mental health problems ‘tangled in bureaucracy’
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People with mental health problems are becoming “tangled up” in the bureaucracy and flaws of the government’s new universal credit benefit system, a committee of MPs have heard. Members of the public accounts committee heard this week that claimants were facing […]

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

By John Pring on 3rd May 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
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A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is facing closure next month if it cannot secure new funding, after becoming the latest victim of competition from large, non-user-led charities and private sector organisations. The threat to the future […]

Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP
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Disabled activists have called on the charity Mind to explain how seconding a senior member of staff to work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last year has affected mental health service-users. In an open letter to […]

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