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ESA sanctions are counter-productive and dangerous, MPs are told

By John Pring on 17th May 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ESA sanctions are counter-productive and dangerous, MPs are told
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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 […]

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 […]

DWP ignores freedom of information laws in bid to hide universal credit impact

By John Pring on 8th March 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignores freedom of information laws in bid to hide universal credit impact
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has breached freedom of information laws by refusing to explain how its new universal credit system of working-age benefits will affect disabled people. Campaigners have been warning that the introduction of universal credit will […]

DPAC calls national day of action to demand universal credit is scrapped

By John Pring on 18th January 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC calls national day of action to demand universal credit is scrapped
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Disabled activists are organising a national day of action to push for the government’s new universal credit benefit system to be scrapped. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) believes that the “punishing” universal credit (UC) regime, which is slowly replacing six working-age […]

Chancellor ignores social care, weeks after UN’s independent living warning

By John Pring on 23rd November 2017 Category: Politics

Chancellor ignores social care, weeks after UN’s independent living warning
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Disabled campaigners have criticised the chancellor’s failure to provide any money in the budget to solve the social care funding crisis, despite a warning from the UN. Although Philip Hammond announced some extra funding for the NHS, there was no mention […]

Tory conference: Gauke’s universal credit silence on debt-ridden disabled people

By John Pring on 5th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory conference: Gauke’s universal credit silence on debt-ridden disabled people
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The work and pensions secretary has refused to say what he will do to help the hundreds of thousands of disabled people and other benefit claimants left in rent arrears and other debt by the botched introduction of universal credit. Campaigners […]

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit rollout ‘will ruin lives of hundreds of thousands’

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit rollout ‘will ruin lives of hundreds of thousands’
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The lives of hundreds of thousands of people will be ruined if the government does not halt its rollout of universal credit, according to a disabled Liberal Democrat MP. Stephen Lloyd, the party’s shadow work and pensions secretary, told this week’s […]

Welfare reform ‘will see £50 a week more cuts to 900,000 disabled people’

By John Pring on 14th September 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Welfare reform ‘will see £50 a week more cuts to 900,000 disabled people’
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About 900,000 disabled people will see their weekly incomes fall by at least £50 a week by 2020, because of the continuing impact of the government’s welfare reforms, according to new research. The research by the consultancy Policy in Practice found […]

Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Education

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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 […]

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

By John Pring on 3rd August 2017 Category: Education

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’
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Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher education because of the introduction of the government’s new universal credit, according to MPs and peers who have written to the minister for employment. The seven MPs and peers, all members of […]

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