Nearly two million people in families with a disabled member were forced into poverty by Tories
Conservative government policies have forced nearly two million people – in families that have a disabled member – into poverty, …
Category Archives: Benefits
Promises on disability and social security show Labour has listened
The Labour Party has paid attention to the people and published a manifesto that promises to end many of the …
DWP leaves navy amputee with £16 a month and tells him: get a job
Is anybody else thinking of Norman Tebbit, a Tory minister back in the 1980s, telling people to get “on your …
‘Survival sex’ scandal prompts call to take benefit powers away from DWP and hand them to Scottish Parliament
Scottish equalities minister Christina McKelvie has called for the Scottish Parliament to have complete control of benefits north of the …
‘Toxic’ culture led to dozens of deaths – of mothers and babies – at NHS trust
Mothers and babies died due to a “toxic” culture at an English NHS trust – according to a leaked report …
Benefit payments are at their meanest since start of ‘welfare state’ – and Tories plan to make them worse
It takes a special kind of psychosis to push people into destitution, despair, sickness and suicide – and pledge to …
Loach heads campaigners calling for benefit assessment ban after job centre death
A campaign to ban benefit assessment interviews has been launched after a 65-year-old man with diabetes collapsed and died after …
Elderly man – with long-term illness – dies at Job Centre after being found ‘fit for work’
If this does say everything about why we need a change of government, I don’t know what does. A man …
Tories got HALF A MILLION sickness and disability benefit assessments wrong – in five years
Research has shown that new benefit assessment techniques imposed by the Conservative government have led to more than 500,000 wrong …
Tory-run DWP’s impossible demand over recording of assessment interviews
Do you think this is corrupt? The Department for Work and Pensions has demanded that anybody who wants their benefit …