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More than 250,000 people have signed a petition to deny Iain Duncan Smith a knighthood.

The worst thing about this is, he probably thinks it’s not enough.

Here‘s a link to the petition. Iain Duncan Smith was granted a knighthood in the New Year honours.

And here’s petition author Mona Kamal, explaining why he should be divested of it:

It is … an insult to all those who suffered needless distress, impoverishment and humiliation as a direct result of his attacks on our welfare system.

During his time as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith was responsible for some of the cruellest and most extreme welfare reforms this country has ever seen.

Under his stewardship of the DWP, the UK became the first country to face a United Nations inquiry into human rights abuses against disabled people – an investigation which later confirmed that our government had been guilty of “grave and systemic violations of the rights of disabled people”.

Over the past decade of austerity very little has demonstrated the callousness and incompetence of this Tory government than their treatment of those with disabilities and chronic mental illness.

The legacy of Iain Duncan Smith is one of incompetence, hypocrisy and above all cruelty to the most vulnerable in our society.

The fact he is to be rewarded for this is a travesty of natural justice which reveals the rottenness at the core of our establishment.

Source: Petition · UK Government and Parliament : We object to Iain Duncan-Smith receiving a Knighthood · Change.org

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Tory delaying tactics mean people are STILL dying before receiving state benefits they’re owed

I’ve just read this, on the excellent Poor side of life blog:

A woman who we’ve spoken to before… looked me in the eyes saying “Let me tell you what happened to a relative of mine. He was very ill but had been declared fit for work at his ESA medical assessment. He appealed this and it then went to tribunal. Sadly he died on the day the tribunal decided that he should get his ESA”.

I wish that this was unusual but it isn’t. This happens a lot, disabled people are being denied their rightful payments every single day. They’re left to live in abject poverty struggling to survive.

The government and their henchmen might say that they care, that they treat people with respect but they don’t. We know that that they’re lying and we’ve got enough evidence to back up our claims.

Enough is enough how much more of this cruelty are we expected to take?

Charlotte (who writes the blog) is right – it isn’t unusual.

And now it seems the Tories have found a way to stop cases even getting to tribunal.

A friend of mine contacted me yesterday with this disturbing development:

The Tory-run DWP is denying people claiming Universal Credit the right to have their cases heard by a tribunal.

This is being done in a very cute way – if you define that word as meaning “clever or cunning in a self-serving way”.

My friend wrote: “I’ve been supporting a few people on UC. Some of them are ill and under the old system they would be on ESA.

“Two of them have had assessments and were both found to be available for work. Both disagreed and asked for the decisions to be reconsidered and both came back unchanged and both applied to go to a tribunal.

“They both received letters from the tribunal service telling them that their tribunals have been cancelled because Universal Credit has sent them for a new assessment.

“The DWP is denying people on UC the right to have their cases heard by a first tier judge.”

This is extremely disturbing and I am keen to hear from anyone who deals with such matters and has had a similar experience. How do we fight this?

Source: Man died before he got his ESA tribunal decision to reinstate his ESA. – The poor side of life

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Is Cleverly for the chop in coming Cabinet reshuffle – along with a lot of ladies?

James Cleverly: He was once described as “the Tories’ go-to eejit when they need someone to tweet absolute nonsense or defend the indefensible”. It seems they no longer feel the need to defend themselves in that way.

It seems James Cleverly’s time at the top is finally running out – and it can’t end soon enough, in This Writer’s view.

Mr Cleverly simply isn’t smart enough to hold a top job in government. Besides, with Boris Johnson as prime minister, we don’t need two idiots with their feet in their mouths at the same time.

Apparently, some think this is harsh treatment after Cleverly presided over a heavy defeat for the Labour Party – but that had very little to do with him.

It seems he’ll be replaced by expenses cheat Maria Miller, who disgraced herself in the Department for Work and Pensions before she disgraced herself over money. It may be that she has learned her lessons in the nearly-six-years since that happened; draw your own conclusions.

Also for the chop, it seems, are many of the women Johnson appointed to make himself look like an equal-opportunities boss, in the run-up to the election.

Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and welfare boss Therese Coffey (who made a fool of herself by saying food banks were a perfect way to deal with poverty) are apparently on the way out, with sexism apparently on the way back in.

It seems the only way Johnson can be described as supporting equal opportunities is negative:

Members of his own government are just as likely to get the bum’s rush as the rest of us. 

Source: Boris Johnson expected to oust Tory chairman James Cleverly in reshuffle – Mirror Online

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If you were angry about Errol Graham, Barry Balderstone’s story will send you through the roof

No picture of the deceased: click on the link to the source article if you want to see him. It seems inappropriate to show a photograph of a man at death’s door.

In the week after we all learned that Errol Graham was denied ESA and subsequently starved to death, this is the last thing we needed to hear.

But the facts must be known: Barry Balderstone, 75, suffered from a range of medical conditions including ulcerative colitis, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, double incontinence and chronic kidney disease.

The Conservative government refused to provide full funding for his care needs.

He died the very next day.

Left it a bit late, didn’t you, Tories?

At the time of his death, Mr Balderstone weighed just seven stone. The tragedy prompted his widow Marilyn to ask: “How ill do you have to be to qualify?”

The former civil engineer went into a nursing home three years ago. A bid for full funding was turned down in 2017 and then again at a review in October 2018.

Meanwhile the couple, who married in 1993, saw a ‘substantial part’ of their savings and pension disappear to foot the bill.

Marilyn went on to say fighting the decision cost another £3,500 and the assessment is designed to score people low so they do not qualify for full funding.

So, basically, the Tories are using the care system to take money out of the economy and away from people who really need it.

Source: Seriously ill man weighing 7st refused free social care – and dies very next day – Mirror Online

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What a travesty. Look who the Tories are trying to force off disability benefits now

Just in case you thought all the victories against DWP injustice by benefit claimants were putting the Tories off their persecution of the disabled:

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UC ‘glitch’ means massive overpayments. What happens when the DWP demands the money back?

The Department for Work and Pensions is apparently overpaying people by thousands of pounds, due to a ‘glitch’ in the Universal Credit system.

Claimants are unlikely to know that they are being overpaid. But what will happen to them when the government contacts they to demand repayment?

That’s the question posed by Hayley Kercher, of Bridgwater. She did notice what was happening, and reported it to the DWP.

But when she told the department that she believed she had been overpaid as her back account was larger than she expected, she was told she’d have to guess how much had been overpaid – and the money would have to be paid back.

How pathetic!

It is practically demanding that this woman – who correctly reported an overpayment – penalises herself for the DWP’s mistake. It is up to the government to work out the amount of the overpayment, not the claimant.

Worse still is the fact that many people may be unaware that they have been overpaid, and are building up a huge debt that the Tories will demand is returned to them at some point in the future.

It could almost be described as entrapment – a deliberate attempt to force people into debt by paying too much and then clawing it back.

People on Universal Credit can’t afford to be messed around in this way.

The new system is touted as being much fairer than the legacy benefits it replaces – but how can that be true if it can’t even get payments right?

My advice to claimants is: check what you’re getting – and if there’s any hint of overpayment, take steps to work out what the difference is and save up to ensure you can pay it back at some point in the future.

But don’t notify the DWP until you are sure that you can repay the full amount.

Source: Mum reveals ‘huge glitch’ in Universal Credit system she fears is wasting taxpayers’ money – Somerset Live

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Tories humiliated after court finds they DID discriminate against thousands with disabilities

The Conservative government keeps trying to victimise disabled people – but take a case to court and they’ll be slapped down, it seems.

Not only has the Tories’ Universal Credit policy been found to discriminate against disabled people moving from one local authority area to another – cutting their income – but they were then found to have tried to discriminate against them with the repayments!

How twisted.

It means thousands of people with disabilities who have been moved off disability benefits and onto Universal Credit may be due large refunds – to be paid at the same rate as the money was taken away.

I would like to see them all demanding their cash back – now.

The ruling upholds two successful High Court challenges brought by two men (known as TP and AR) which found that people who were previously on disability benefits should be protected against a drop in their income when they move into the controversial Universal Credit system.

Under Universal Credit they lost out on their disability benefits, leaving them suddenly around £180 a month worse off. The judge found that this was unlawful because those that moved to a different local authority area were being treated differently to those who moved within their local authority area.

The government attempted to rectify the situation with regulations which stopped other severely disabled people from moving over to Universal Credit and provided those who had already moved over with back payments.

But in another government failing, the disabled men were only paid back at a rate of £80 a month, rather than the £180 that they had lost.

The Court of Appeal in an unanimous judgment handed down today agreed with the lower courts that the Government had unlawfully discriminated against this cohort of severely disabled claimants.

Source: Universal Credit case finds government discriminated against thousands of disabled people – Liverpool Echo

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Tories took £50 million from Britain’s poorest families in one month

Cash bonanza: The DWP is bringing loads of money back into the Treasury – by forcing Universal Credit claimants into poverty.

It’s wilful impoverishment of the needy.

The Tories have been working hard to force poverty-stricken families further into destitution, clawing back £50 million in Universal Credit loan repayments in a single month.

The punitive new policy demands that claimants must wait five weeks before receiving a penny of their regular payments – but they may take out an advance in the form of a loan.

This is then repayable, from the regular payments, in the future – meaning already-poor claimants and families are plunged even further into poverty and debt.

And the Tories absolutely love it!

The fact that so much money – £50 million – was taken from claimants by the Tories indicates that the policy doesn’t work.

It should not be necessary for claimants to have to ask for so much in advance.

And the fact that they have to pay it back puts them at a serious disadvantage.

It forces people to the food banks.

But then, Work and Pensions secretary Therese Coffey seems to think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Source: DWP clawed back £50million in Universal Credit loan repayments in just one month – Mirror Online

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Tories STILL haven’t bothered to research the harsh impact of Universal Credit delays

This is no surprise to anyone who has been following the contribution of Universal Credit to the spread of poverty in the UK.

The Conservative government has received many demands for research into the adverse impact of its new failure of a policy – you can’t call it a benefit – but has steadfastly refused to do anything about it.

There is a simple reason for this: Tories don’t care if someone else is suffering.

The entire aim of Universal Credit is to pay as little as possible to people in need.

Poverty is irrelevant to them. If people die, that’s irrelevant too. All that matters is deniability.

And that’s another reason the Tories won’t do any research.

The Department of Work and Pensions has failed to analyse the impact of the five-week wait for Universal Credit, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

Neil Cowan, policy and parliamentary officer at the Poverty Alliance, requested detail from the Department on the levels of poverty, destitution or “food insecurity” suffered by claimants forced to wait five weeks for their first payment.

But the Department of Work and Pensions responded saying that it does not hold any such analysis on the five-week wait.

This is despite being required to hold the personal data of claimants, their benefits records, and details of any payments made.

Source: Tories deny knowledge of poverty caused by Universal Credit delays | Left Foot Forward

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Mum’s court challenge against DWP demand for UC claimants to go into childcare debt

Why should the Department for Work and Pensions demand that parents on Universal Credit go into debt over childcare costs?

Current rules say parents can get up to £646 per month for each child under 16, funding 85 per cent of their care costs – but they must pay those costs up-front and claim them back later, putting them in debt.

Some end up thousands of pounds in the red.

The DWP says this is to prevent fraud – but there are ways to do this that don’t push people into debt.

Just off the top of This Writer’s head: what’s wrong with having a letter from the provider, saying exactly what the costs will be in advance? That proof is as good as anything else.

The rule may be unlawful, discriminatory, and in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (which I should remind readers is nothing to do with the EU and therefore is something by which they UK must still abide).

Now, single mum Nichola Salvato is demanding a judicial review of the DWP’s dodgy rule.

She also happens to be a professional benefits advisor and is supported by Save the Children – so it seems likely that she knows her facts.

But will a ruling against the DWP do any good? Tories aren’t very good at following laws they don’t like – and the general election handed them far too much power to do anything they feel like.

Source: Single mum takes DWP to High Court after Universal Credit hurled her into childcare debt – Mirror Online

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