Disabled people’s organisations and allies have offered strong support for a user-led plan to build a social security system that treats all benefit claimants with “dignity, fairness and respect”, and replaces the government’s “chaotic” universal credit. The plan has been drawn […]
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Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
A user-led commission has called for a “transformational” reboot of the social security system to replace the current “inadequate, demeaning, inefficient” structure that “deliberately scapegoats” unemployed and disabled people. In its final proposals, following more than three years of work, the Commission […]
Jobcentre tells claimant with bowel condition to ‘use bucket we keep behind the building’
Watchdog says government has made zero progress on social security and rights
COVID inquiry will conclude that benefit cuts led to deaths, MP tells minister
Post-COVID Scottish government ‘must look to rights and co-production’
Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’
Thinktank responsible for universal credit launches ‘Disability Commission’
Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust
Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues
The government is discriminating against disabled benefit claimants by failing to install equipment at tribunal venues that would allow them to record what happens at their social security appeals, according to university researchers. Leeds University’s International Disability Law Clinic (IDLC) has […]