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Support for user-led plan to replace universal credit… and treat all claimants with respect

By John Pring on 13th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Support for user-led plan to replace universal credit… and treat all claimants with respect
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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 […]

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system

By John Pring on 27th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
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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’

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jobcentre tells claimant with bowel condition to ‘use bucket we keep behind the building’
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A jobcentre security guard told a disabled man with a chronic bowel condition that he was not allowed to use the staff toilets, but that there was a bucket that was kept behind the building “for claimants to use”. AJ* had […]

Watchdog says government has made zero progress on social security and rights

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Human Rights

Watchdog says government has made zero progress on social security and rights
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The UK government has made no progress in improving the way its social security system protects the rights of disabled people and other groups, according to a new assessment by the equality and human rights watchdog. In its assessment of progress […]

COVID inquiry will conclude that benefit cuts led to deaths, MP tells minister

By John Pring on 16th September 2021 Category: Politics

COVID inquiry will conclude that benefit cuts led to deaths, MP tells minister
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The government’s cuts to social security will be found to have played a significant part in causing the deaths of many disabled people during the pandemic, MPs were told yesterday (Wednesday). Labour’s Debbie Abrahams said that ministers’ failure to assess the […]

Post-COVID Scottish government ‘must look to rights and co-production’

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Human Rights

Post-COVID Scottish government ‘must look to rights and co-production’
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Planning for a post-COVID Scotland must include a commitment to incorporate the UN disability convention into law, and fully involve disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), according to a leading Scottish DPO. Announcing its own manifesto for the upcoming elections to the Scottish […]

Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’
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The government’s continuing failure to allow benefit appeals to be heard via video conferencing is discriminating against disabled claimants, say welfare rights experts. Many disabled people are being forced to ask for their tribunals to be postponed, because they are only […]

Thinktank responsible for universal credit launches ‘Disability Commission’

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Employment

Thinktank responsible for universal credit launches ‘Disability Commission’
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The right-wing thinktank responsible for designing universal credit has launched a new “Disability Commission” that it hopes will influence the government’s planned disability strategy. At least half of the 12 commissioners, who will not be paid for their work, are disabled […]

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust
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Disabled people and others with personal experience of claiming benefits are leading a ground-breaking project to devise a new social security system, in which claimants would be treated with dignity, trust and respect. The Commission on Social Security, led by Experts […]

Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues

By John Pring on 17th January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues
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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 […]

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