Campaigner who embarrassed DWP was forced into 15-month benefit battle – with DWP
The worst aspect of this is that there probably isn’t a connection. Gail Ward caused serious embarrassment to the Department for …
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Chorus of derision greets announcement that Iain Duncan Smith is to be knighted
Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is to be knighted – presumably for his services to genocide and …
Benefit ordeal of man with no limbs shows nothing changed in nine years of Tory rule
Years ago, in the early days of This Site, I used to use an image of a young lady with …
Tories pressurised benefit assessment company to find sick claimants fit for work, says doctor
Let’s be fair: The Conservatives put Atos under immense pressure to find claimants ineligible for out-of-work sickness benefits. Disability News …
Don’t believe Boris Johnson on benefits – he is only offering more poverty, misery and death
Boris Johnson has finally published the Conservative manifesto amid a stink of embarrassment – and, for benefit claimants, a hard …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Join the demand for common sense overhaul of ‘humiliating’ and ‘degrading’ PIP process
Liz Gumbley’s experience is shocking – and all-too-common. She suffers from a lifelong progressive illness – multiple sclerosis, which is …
PIP appeal success shows how DWP persecutes the vulnerable – until it is found out
A woman with an extremely rare disability was told she qualified for a bare minimum on the disability benefit PIP …