Try telling Errol Graham that ‘Black Lives Matter’. Oh you can’t – he’s dead
What? You think Errol Graham only died because he was ill? Your Conservative government is multiply-prejudiced and can ensure that …
Category Archives: Employment and Support Allowance
People with disabilities: do YOU want IAIN DUNCAN SMITH influencing how government treats you?
Iain Duncan Smith – his very name still triggers hate and fear in people with long-term illnesses and disabilities, in …
Spain approves Universal Basic Income – and it’s more than UK sick and disabled get
Only a few weeks ago, Tories were delighting in claiming that no other nation had adopted a Universal Basic Income …
Coronavirus is concentrating discontent with the benefit system – but does that include sickness and disability?
It seems the knives are out for Universal Credit. But while academics think in terms of justice for all, Tories …
Disabled benefit claimants are sidelined* again as DWP assessors diverted to Universal Credit
Once again the Tory government shafts people with disabilities. More than a quarter of a million people who should be …
Family of man who starved to death after losing benefits launches lawsuit against DWP
Remember Errol Graham? He’s the man who starved to death after the Department for Work and Pensions cut off his …
DWP accused of ‘discriminating’ against ESA-claiming disabled people in coronavirus pandemic
This is probably what the UN poverty rapporteur, Philip Alston, has been talking about recently. He said the Tories spent …
What did we expect? Benefit assessors haven’t progressed towards improving safeguards for the vulnerable
This should make your blood boil. Yes, there’s a crisis going on involving the coronavirus pandemic. That shouldn’t mean work …
Coronavirus: trust Iain Duncan Smith to try to wreck our chances of survival
It had to be him. Iain Duncan Smith, creator of the huge increase in poverty in the UK since 2010, …
Tories suspend face-to-face benefit assessments amid coronavirus crisis – but what’s behind their compassionate veneer?
They took their time about it. And one has to question whether it would have happened without pressure from organisations …