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Budget 2018: Chancellor’s billions ‘will not halt universal credit humanitarian crisis’

By John Pring on 1st November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Budget 2018: Chancellor’s billions ‘will not halt universal credit humanitarian crisis’
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The chancellor’s decision to pump billions of pounds into universal credit will not halt the “humanitarian crisis” that will be caused by its systemic flaws, disabled activists have warned. Philip Hammond announced in this week’s budget that he had found £1 […]

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

By John Pring on 19th April 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people
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Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart of Westminster will empower other disabled people to follow their lead and fight the government’s social security cuts and reforms. The action by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), which involved scores […]

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