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‘Reckless or negligent?’ DWP’s decade-long failure to assess universal credit impact

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Reckless or negligent?’ DWP’s decade-long failure to assess universal credit impact
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted an “extraordinary” failure over nearly a decade to carry out any detailed calculations on how universal credit will affect different groups of disabled people. DWP has always admitted there would be winners […]

Guards lock activists inside DWP HQ during universal credit ‘whitewash’ action

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Guards lock activists inside DWP HQ during universal credit ‘whitewash’ action
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Disabled activists were locked inside the Department for Work and Pensions’ headquarters by security guards as they delivered thousands of copies of a newspaper that feature “deliberately misleading” DWP adverts which “whitewash” the truth about universal credit. Protesters from Disabled People […]

Confusion – again – after Labour backtracks on Corbyn pledge to scrap universal credit

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Confusion – again – after Labour backtracks on Corbyn pledge to scrap universal credit
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Labour’s policy on universal credit has again become mired in confusion after its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, promised to scrap the government’s “catastrophic” and “iniquitous” benefit system if his party wins the next general election. Such a move would be seen as […]

Union backs DPAC campaign to dump newspapers over universal credit adverts

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Union backs DPAC campaign to dump newspapers over universal credit adverts
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A trade union has backed disabled activists who are removing thousands of copies of a newspaper every week from their public distribution points over its publication of government advertising features that are air-brushing concerns about universal credit (UC). The Bakers Food […]

Activists begin direct action over universal credit newspaper ads

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

Activists begin direct action over universal credit newspaper ads
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Disabled activists across the country have removed thousands of copies of a national newspaper from their public distribution points after it began publishing a series of advertising features that will air-brush concerns about universal credit. Members of Sheffield Disabled People Against […]

Second newspaper group could be targeted over universal credit articles

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

Second newspaper group could be targeted over universal credit articles
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A second national newspaper group is facing a boycott and possible direct action protests over a Department for Work and Pensions campaign that aims to improve the reputation of its “toxic” universal credit benefit system. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is […]

Disabled people ‘driven to breaking point’ by cuts, says UN expert

By John Pring on 23rd May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled people ‘driven to breaking point’ by cuts, says UN expert
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Many disabled people’s families have been “driven to breaking point” by cuts to social care, while other disabled people have been denied benefits and forced by the government into unsuitable work, a UN human rights expert has concluded. Professor Philip Alston, […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Anger over DWP’s universal credit ad campaign

By John Pring on 23rd May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Anger over DWP’s universal credit ad campaign
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Disabled union activists have condemned the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and media managers for pressuring jobcentre workers and reporters to take part in an “unethical and misleading” campaign aimed at air-brushing the impact of universal credit. The National Union […]

Newspaper ignores concerns over DWP’s universal credit ads

By John Pring on 23rd May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Newspaper ignores concerns over DWP’s universal credit ads
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A national newspaper has ignored concerns about a series of “misleading” Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) adverts that are set to air-brush its “toxic” universal credit (UC) benefit system. The Metro newspaper – run by the company that owns the […]

Direct action pledge after DWP pays tabloid to air-brush universal credit

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Direct action pledge after DWP pays tabloid to air-brush universal credit
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Disabled activists are to target a tabloid newspaper with direct action after it signed an advertising deal with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to promote its “toxic” universal credit benefit system. A leaked DWP document – seen by Disability […]

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