Labour’s DWP benefit fraud ‘crackdown’ is just another right-wing scam
Under the Labour Party's proposed Fraud, Error, and Debt Bill, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is poised to ...
Tag: disability
Labour is exaggerating how much its DWP cuts will save – just to penalise disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under fire from a prominent thinktank for its plans to cut ...
A new start up is offering support for people claiming DWP PIP. For shame.
A new initiative launched by the disability-focused startup Purpl offers crucial financial relief for people who claim Department for Work ...
Labour says feeling like a burden is a reason for assisted suicide – while making disabled people feel like burdens
This week, a friend asked me what the first defining moment of seeing disability portrayed on TV was for me ...
Outrage as Labour minister makes shocking statement about DWP cuts
With the Labour Party government's Spring Statement imminent, chancellor Rachel Reeves is doubling down with a raft of spending cuts ...
Nearly HALF of all PIP claims rejected by DWP – yet disabled people are ‘scroungers’
Nearly half of all claims for Personal Independent Payments (PIP) were denied by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ...
The secret to Birmingham Live’s constant DWP headlines will (not) shock you
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) clickbait outrage merchants at Reach PLC are at it again, using the fear ...
Wales’ hidden war: the Long Covid crisis demands a national response
It has been nearly eighty years since Wales last faced devastation on the scale of war. Yet, as the Senedd ...
A petition over changes to the DWP’s PIP system is getting thousands of signatures
A growing petition demanding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ends repeated assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has ...
Government hit with formal complaint over discredited NHS treatments for ME/CFS
It has been more than three years since the launch of a vital campaign to get the government to set ...
A group in the US are documenting ‘The Week in Trump’s Ableist Bullsh*t’
Only five weeks into the new Donald Trump presidency, but that little over a month of the fascist felon-turned-US head ...
Starmer’s Great British Railways SHAM finally exposed as a corporate con
A passenger-led group has exposed that the government's ongoing expansion of so-called Great British Railways is little more than an ...
Being disabled under the Tories was bad. With Labour, it’s soul destroying
I’ve been struggling to write this column for a while now. Obviously there’s been the personal reasons and professional reasons ...
‘Irrelevant’: a poem about being a disabled person in the UK
In the UK, successive governments and society have marginalised and persecuted chronically ill and disabled people for decades. However, in ...
Balram Patel’s father says his son’s death was a case of “forced assisted dying” due to medical negligence
Patients Lives Matter, a patient advocacy group, has announced the dates for the coroner's inquest into the death of Balram ...
Leadbeater’s latest assisted dying U-turn could give Starmer a run for his money – and harm just as many disabled people
In a move that might even give Labour Party PM Keir Starmer a run for his money, Kim Leadbeater has ...
DWP boss Liz Kendall probably wishes she’d never opened her mouth (again)
Work and pensions secretary and arch Blairite Liz Kendall has claimed that there are substantial people on Department for Work ...
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