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‘We will not give a single inch,’ disabled activists vow, as Kendall publishes disability cuts bill

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘We will not give a single inch,’ disabled activists vow, as Kendall publishes disability cuts bill
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Disabled activists say they “will not give a single inch” in their resistance to billions of pounds of cuts confirmed yesterday by the Labour government in its new universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Other than minor concessions by work […]

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths
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A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. The […]

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Rebel Labour MPs send final warning to ministers before disability cuts bill is published
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Rebel Labour MPs delivered their final warnings to the government this week, ahead of yesterday’s publication of a government bill that will cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. A group of 15 Labour backbenchers (pictured) took […]

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Insurance industry silent over whether it lobbied DWP to cut disability benefits
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Major insurance companies – including one that spent years lobbying the government to tighten eligibility for out-of-work disability benefits – have refused to say if they pushed the government to introduce controversial cuts to one of those benefits. Not one of […]

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting
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The disability minister has been accused of a “shocking lack of empathy” after walking past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about government plans to cut disability benefits by billions of pounds. Representatives […]

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Housing

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many
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Thousands of disabled people could lose out on thousands of pounds a year in housing benefit – and face eviction – because of the government’s cuts to disability benefits, but ministers have no idea how many will lose out and risk […]

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts
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Disabled people from across the UK converged on parliament yesterday to challenge their MPs in face-to-face meetings about the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits. Disabled activists travelled from Northern Ireland, from Wales – including a group of Disability Wales members […]

Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’
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Disabled activists gate-crashed one of the government’s “sham” consultation events on its disability benefits green paper, and persuaded civil servants to let them put questions that ministers had not wanted to be asked. The direct action, led by Manchester Disabled People […]

Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases
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At least three legal firms are examining ways in which they could support disabled people and their organisations to challenge some of the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits in the courts. Public Law Project (PLP), Leigh Day and Bhatt Murphy […]

Disabled people’s organisations tell Kendall benefit cuts are ‘incredibly dangerous’ and consultation is a ‘sham’

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people’s organisations tell Kendall benefit cuts are ‘incredibly dangerous’ and consultation is a ‘sham’
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Leading disabled people’s organisations (DPO) have written to work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall to express “serious concerns” about the human rights implications of her “incredibly dangerous” plans to cut spending on disability benefits. They say in the letter that her […]

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