‘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 …
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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 …
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 …
Mental health crisis for autistic man as DWP stops his disability benefits
A man had to be referred to a mental health crisis team after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped …
Iain Duncan Smith: Labour has chance to take a major Tory scalp as opponent steps aside
Labour’s Faiza Shaheen has a stronger chance to unseat Tory and Brexit figurehead Iain Duncan Smith after a Green candidate …
If Tory policies are so great, why are so many more of us forced to visit food banks?
Boris Johnson tells us the UK’s economy is fundamentally sound, and only “small improvements” are needed, such as “addressing transport …
No justice for man the Tory-run DWP said wasn’t sick enough for PIP
Remember Jamie Oliver, who the Tory government said wasn’t sick enough for PIP, right before he died? It seems the …