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New alliance to scrap universal credit aims to mirror anti-poll tax campaign

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

New alliance to scrap universal credit aims to mirror anti-poll tax campaign
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Disabled activists have called for opponents of universal credit (UC) across the country to help mirror the campaign that led to the poll tax being abandoned in the early 1990s, by joining a new national alliance that is demanding UC is […]

Labour’s new DWP shadow attacked for ‘toxic’ comments on social security

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s new DWP shadow attacked for ‘toxic’ comments on social security
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Labour’s new shadow work and pensions secretary is facing anger from disabled activists and politicians after he said that people who “put more in” to the social security system should “get more out of it” if they lose their jobs. Among […]

Round-up: Letter to DWP on £20 uprating, ILF survey… and PIP telephone assessments

By John Pring on 4th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Round-up: Letter to DWP on £20 uprating, ILF survey… and PIP telephone assessments
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The government’s own benefits advisers have told ministers that it is “increasingly untenable” for them to refuse to pay those on out-of-work disability benefits the temporary increase of £20 a week being paid to claimants of universal credit. The increase in […]

Sanction threats are likely to harm health of WRAG claimants, says research

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sanction threats are likely to harm health of WRAG claimants, says research
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Trying to force disabled people into work by threatening to sanction their benefits is ineffective and likely to harm their health, and even put their lives at risk, according to research co-produced with a disabled people’s organisation. The fear instilled by […]

ESA sanctions fall close to zero, but concerns remain over JSA and universal credit

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

ESA sanctions fall close to zero, but concerns remain over JSA and universal credit
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The number of disabled people on the main out-of-work disability benefit who are being sanctioned by the government for failing to meet strict conditions has fallen close to zero, following years of criticism of the harsh regime. Department for Work and […]

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 […]

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