Rick Burgess

Benefits and Poverty

October 13, 2016

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Conference hears of ‘democide’, ‘psycho-compulsion’ and suicide risk from benefit system

Mental health survivors and psychologists have joined forces for a conference that has highlighted the extreme damage caused by welfare reform, and has suggested how mental health professionals can help in the fight to improve the benefit system. The Psychologists and the Benefits System conference in Manchester was organised by clinical psychologist and lecturer

Politics

June 30, 2016

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Brexit vote: Disabled people speak of shock, horror and dismay

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Disabled people have spoken of their horror, shock and anger at learning of the vote to leave the European Union in last week’s referendum. Although many disabled people voted for Brexit, the vast majority of leading disabled activists were strongly in favour of remaining in the European Union. One disabled campaigner, who asked not

Activism and Campaigning

Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

February 25, 2016 8

Government set to face legal action after Tory MPs back ‘cruel and nasty’ ESA cut

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The government is likely to face legal action if it pushes ahead with plans to cut the out-of-work disability benefits of hundreds of thousands of claimants by £1, 500 a year, say disabled activists. The warning came as Conservative MPs overturned a House of Lords amendment which had removed the proposed cut from the

Benefits and Poverty

July 31, 2015

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‘Bizarre’ figures raise fears over ministers’ plans for ESA

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked new concerns after releasing “bizarre” figures that suggest ministers plan to cut the number of people eligible for out-of-work disability benefits by a third in 2017-18. The statistics were provided by employment minister Priti Patel in a written response to a question from Labour MP

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Conference hears of ‘democide’, ‘psycho-compulsion’ and suicide risk from benefit system

Brexit vote: Disabled people speak of shock, horror and dismay

Government set to face legal action after Tory MPs back ‘cruel and nasty’ ESA cut

‘Bizarre’ figures raise fears over ministers’ plans for ESA