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 […]
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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 […]