Tories sneak out continued benefit freeze behind announcement of royal engagement
Oh, joyous day! (That’s unless you receive Universal Credit, Jobseekers’ Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit, or …
Tag Archives: Employment and Support Allowance
The London Paralympic legacy, two years later: Vox Political’s predictions were true
Two years ago, Vox Political warned that the legacy of the London Paralympics would be the loss of disability benefits …
‘WoW’ debate on sickness and disability benefits live blog
That concludes today’s live blog. Thanks to everybody who visited and pressed ‘F5’ to keep up with events. 2.38pm The …
How about a live blog on the benefit debate?
I’m thinking of doing a ‘live blog’ on the WoW Petition/incapacity-disability benefits debate in the House of Commons tomorrow (Thursday). …
The fakery and failure behind the DWP’s new ‘health’ scheme
It seems that the Department for Work and Pensions is sticking to the ‘Adolf Hitler’ model of public relations: If …
Have 230,000 sick and disabled people been wrongly knocked off-benefit and forgotten?
After all the government’s efforts to kick people off long-term sickness benefits, the number of claimants has risen – but …
Let’s start the New Year with some hopeful news
The Information Commissioner and the Department of Work and Pensions will have to defend, before a tribunal, their decision to …
Mr ‘Political’ goes to Westminster, looking for justice
Congratulations are due to Labour MPs John McDonnell and Grahame Morris, who have persuaded Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee to agree …
WoW Petition for rethink of disability ‘reforms’ hits its target
What a great result for the WoW Petition – it has reached its target of 100,000 signatures with time to …
Information Commissioner rules on the cover-up of DWP-related deaths
Long-term readers will know that the author of this blog has spent the last few months trying to get officials …