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News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

News round-up: Capita, basic income, immigration, arts diversity, UC… and Motability
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The performance of one of the government’s disability benefit assessment contractors has worsened over the last year and has remained well outside a government target it has never met, new figures have revealed. They show that the proportion of personal independence […]

News round-up: Rail delays, universal credit, BSL, football… and pay gaps

By John Pring on 6th February 2020 Category: Transport

News round-up: Rail delays, universal credit, BSL, football… and pay gaps
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Ministers have given the transport industry permission to use inaccessible vehicles for rail replacement services for another three months. In December, it emerged that the government was allowing the industry to continue to use older buses and coaches that do not […]

Seven years on, and still no new form for universal credit free prescriptions

By John Pring on 9th January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Seven years on, and still no new form for universal credit free prescriptions
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The government has failed to issue a form that would allow disabled people claiming universal credit (UC) to show their pharmacist they are entitled to free prescriptions, more than two years after it promised to do so. It is now nearly […]

Civil servants ‘ashamed’ to work for DWP over ‘pig’s ear’ universal credit

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Civil servants ‘ashamed’ to work for DWP over ‘pig’s ear’ universal credit
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Civil servants described to colleagues how they were “ashamed” to work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) because of the experiences of their own relatives when claiming universal credit, leaked documents have revealed. The thoughts of DWP civil servants […]

Disabled duo continue universal credit ‘injustice’ court fight

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled duo continue universal credit ‘injustice’ court fight
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Two disabled men have been forced to return yet again to the Royal Courts of Justice this week to fight what they say is the injustice caused by the government’s universal credit benefit system. The men, known as TP and AR […]

‘Propaganda’ concerns over DWP’s second jobcentre fly-on-the-wall series

By John Pring on 14th November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Propaganda’ concerns over DWP’s second jobcentre fly-on-the-wall series
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Channel 4 and BBC have attempted to justify plans to broadcast two separate fly-on-the-wall documentary series based in jobcentres, both of which could enable ministers to continue their campaign to undermine critical reporting on their “toxic” universal credit benefit system. Only […]

Ruling on DWP’s misleading universal credit ads ‘is vindication for direct action’

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Ruling on DWP’s misleading universal credit ads ‘is vindication for direct action’
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Disabled activists who took direct action against a national newspaper – after it published untruthful Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) adverts praising its much-criticised universal credit benefit system – say a watchdog’s ruling has vindicated their activism. The Advertising Standards […]

Two more PIP reviews could mean DWP has had to fix 10 benefit blunders in two years

By John Pring on 24th October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Two more PIP reviews could mean DWP has had to fix 10 benefit blunders in two years
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has had to carry out what appear to be as many as nine or even 10 costly trawls through the records of disabled people unfairly deprived of benefits in just two years. DWP quietly […]

Tory conference: Disabled activists shame Tories on cost of ‘heartless’ austerity

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tory conference: Disabled activists shame Tories on cost of ‘heartless’ austerity
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Disabled activists have protested outside the Conservative conference in Manchester in a bid to shame party members into accepting that a decade of austerity cuts from Tory-led governments have caused poverty, despair and countless deaths.  Protesters spoke of how the cuts […]

Labour’s pledge to scrap universal credit ‘is victory for years of activism’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s pledge to scrap universal credit ‘is victory for years of activism’
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Disabled activists have welcomed Labour’s promise to scrap universal credit (UC) if it wins power at the next general election as a victory for years of campaigning. But they have warned the party that they still want to know how UC […]

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