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Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th December 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits
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The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four […]

Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment

By John Pring on 12th December 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment
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Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among hundreds of thousands of claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. They spoke during a […]

Disabled activists and unions come together to fight threatened cuts to benefits in Labour’s first budget

By John Pring on 24th October 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists and unions come together to fight threatened cuts to benefits in Labour’s first budget
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Disabled activists and unions have come together to fight what they fear will be a renewed, hostile attack on disabled people who rely on social security at next week’s budget. A parliamentary meeting this week heard disabled campaigners and senior union […]

DWP staff tell MPs after years of deaths: We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff tell MPs after years of deaths: We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’
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Two-thirds of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff still do not have enough time to deal with safeguarding concerns “carefully” and “correctly”, despite years of deaths of benefit claimants linked with DWP’s failings. Results from a survey* carried out by […]

Anger and frustration after unions refuse to back disabled people’s manifesto

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Human Rights

Anger and frustration after unions refuse to back disabled people’s manifesto
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Disabled union delegates have been accused of failing to support the disability movement after refusing to back a motion at their annual conference that called on political parties, and the TUC, to support a manifesto drawn up by disabled people’s organisations. […]

Disabled union activists warn Labour: If you break your promises, we will come for you

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Employment

Disabled union activists warn Labour: If you break your promises, we will come for you
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Disabled trade unionists have warned that they will hold Labour to account on the promises it makes to improve the rights of disabled workers, if the party wins power at July’s general election. They have also called for activists to exert […]

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Politics

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric
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Disabled union activists have attacked the government’s demonisation of disabled people and its “disgraceful discriminatory language”, at a conference that began less than a day after prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced the date of the general election. A series of […]

DWP figures ‘show how rise in staff workload led to mental health crisis’

By John Pring on 14th March 2024 Category: Employment

DWP figures ‘show how rise in staff workload led to mental health crisis’
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A huge increase in the workload faced by civil servants managing universal credit cases led to significant increases in how many of them took time off after experiencing mental distress and other ill-health, new government figures suggest. The figures, secured through […]

DPAC returns to the streets for ‘active resistance’ to DWP cuts

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC returns to the streets for ‘active resistance’ to DWP cuts
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Disabled activists have announced a fightback against a series of “horrific” government social security reforms and have called for “active resistance” to the plans, starting with a national day of action and a protest in London early next month. A meeting […]

Labour calls for urgent probe into ‘devastating’ DWP dossier

By John Pring on 14th December 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour calls for urgent probe into ‘devastating’ DWP dossier
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Labour has called for an urgent government investigation into a “devastating” dossier of evidence that suggests the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “in a state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits system. Evidence submitted to […]

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