WRAG

Benefits and Poverty

Esther McVey giving evidence to the committee

July 12, 2018 0

MPs raise concerns with McVey over ‘stress and poverty’ caused by WRAG cuts

Cross-party MPs have raised a series of concerns with work and pensions secretary Esther McVey about the government’s treatment of disabled people on out-of-work benefits. Members of the Commons work and pensions select committee were questioning McVey (pictured) more than a year after her government introduced cuts of nearly £30 a week to payments to

Employment

Marsha de Cordova speaking in the House of Commons

March 1, 2018 0

Government ‘must do more on disability employment’, MPs hear

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The government must do more to offer incentives to businesses to take on disabled people as employees, and to tackle the barriers that prevent them finding jobs, according to cross-party MPs. MPs from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Conservative party all pushed the government to improve its policies. Disability Rights UK,

Benefits and Poverty

A man sorts shelves stacked with packets and tins of food

July 6, 2017 0

Foodbank study suggests disability benefits should rise

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The authors of a major new study have called on the government to launch an inquiry into whether disability benefit payments should be increased, after finding more than half of the people who use foodbanks are disabled and unable to work. The report, which looks in detail at the profiles of people receiving emergency

Benefits and Poverty

May 11, 2017

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Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people

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More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in just one month, after the government introduced a new, lower cap on the total benefits that any non-working household can receive. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures are the first to be published since the level of the benefit cap was

Benefits and Poverty

Penny Mordaunt giving evidence to the work and pensions committee

April 6, 2017 1

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

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The minister for disabled people has been accused of making “false promises” that she would reduce the living costs of people facing cuts of nearly £30 a week to their out-of-work disability benefits. From this week, new employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) will receive about

Benefits and Poverty

Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

December 1, 2016

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Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts

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The minister for disabled people is working on urgent plans to cut the living costs faced by disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits, she has told MPs. Penny Mordaunt was responding to warnings of the “human cost” of “bizarre” government plans to cut more than £1 billion from disabled benefit claimants over the four

Human Rights

Some candles next to part of a DPAC banner

November 17, 2016

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McDonnell pledges Labour will force government to debate UN ‘rights violations’ report

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Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged before MPs to explain why it was found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights by the United Nations. John McDonnell told Disability News Service (DNS) last night (Wednesday) that Labour would ensure there was a debate about the

Benefits and Poverty

Liz Sayce giving evidence to a parliamentary committee

August 11, 2016

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Charity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap

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A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap on working-age benefits, after the publication of new government figures. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) spoke out after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published figures showing that more than 3, 100 households which included someone claiming

Benefits and Poverty

Ben Baumberg giving evidence to the committee

July 7, 2016

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Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut

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A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help them find work. They were giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee, as part of its inquiry into the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap (the difference between the employment rates of

Benefits and Poverty

March 24, 2016

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Government backtracks on PIP but WRAG cuts remain

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The government has abandoned plans to tighten eligibility for its new disability benefit, but has refused to reconsider cuts to out-of-work disability benefits that were approved by parliament earlier this month. The announcement that the government was withdrawing plans to cut spending on personal independence payment (PIP) – which would have affected 370, 000

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