Imposing benefit sanctions on disabled people is counter-productive, ineffective and “probably too dangerous”, a trio of experts have told MPs. The Commons work and pensions committee also heard that the failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to research […]
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DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people
DWP ignores freedom of information laws in bid to hide universal credit impact
DPAC calls national day of action to demand universal credit is scrapped
Chancellor ignores social care, weeks after UN’s independent living warning
Tory conference: Gauke’s universal credit silence on debt-ridden disabled people
Lib Dem conference: Universal credit rollout ‘will ruin lives of hundreds of thousands’
Welfare reform ‘will see £50 a week more cuts to 900,000 disabled people’
Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’
Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many disabled students from entering higher education, without knowing how much money it would save or how many young disabled people would be affected. The admission came in response to a […]