Suspend benefit cap to protect disabled people in coronavirus crisis? It’ll never happen under Tories!
It’s a good, solid, practical suggestion: with disabled people most at risk of financial loss during the coronavirus crisis, the …
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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: disabled people are in danger of losing benefits while fighting the disease
This is a serious concern. The Department for Work and Pensions is in the habit of cutting off people’s benefit …
Coronavirus crisis won’t persuade Tories to axe the five-week wait for Universal Credit
The Conservatives have insisted on forcing financial instability on hundreds of thousands of people – by refusing to ditch the …
DWP is swamped by half a million Universal Credit claims in coronavirus crisis
Another back-of-a-fag-packet Tory scheme falls apart. Boris Johnson told us that Universal Credit would be available to self-employed people who …
Coronavirus: DWP announcement on benefit assessments leaves room for persecution
It’s taken the DWP long enough but at last we have some clarity on benefit claims and reassessments. The message …
MP raises ‘grave concern’ over PIP benefit assessors – and he’s a TORY
Did somebody forget to send Anthony Mangnall the memo? Normally, Conservative MPs pay little attention – perhaps only lip-service – to …
Coronavirus: ‘Deluge’ of benefit claimants are about to learn what it’s like to deal with the DWP
This is going to be ugly. According to The Independent, the Department for Work and Pensions is bracing itself for a …
DWP hires opinion poll firm to survey benefit claimants who challenge decisions. Why?
Our friends at Benefits and Work pose an interesting question: why has the DWP hired an opinion poll company – Ipsos Mori …
Post-budget death revelation shows it’s still business as usual for disabled people under the Tories
How disheartening for sick and disabled people that on the day the Tories made a big show of acting on …