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UN experts are still planning to deliver findings on Labour’s attacks on disabled people’s rights, even though a public examination of the UK government had to be abandoned because of a funding crisis fuelled by US president Donald Trump. The committee […]
A new cross-party report from MPs has raised significant concerns about the impact of the government’s disability benefit cuts and reforms on the poverty and safety of disabled claimants. The Labour-dominated Commons work and pensions committee calls in the report for […]
Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in two years, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. The […]
Just 17 peers were willing to support disabled people this week, following disablist comments by both Tories and a Labour member as the Lords rubber-stamped a bill to remove billions of pounds a year from disabled people seeking out-of-work benefits. During […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally released excerpts of secret reports that show how its errors contributed to the deaths of universal credit (UC) claimants, just days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year-cuts to the UC health element. […]
The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits. The […]
A senior Labour MP has been heavily criticised by disabled activists after telling the prime minister she felt “ashamed” of the government’s plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, despite voting for some of the cuts herself. Debbie Abrahams, […]
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system. The […]
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives. Despite efforts to defeat the much-changed bill, or […]
A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Minutes of a meeting in March […]