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Press Release: Disabled People Mount Legal Challenge To Bedroom Tax

Press Release From We Are Spartacus: Latest update: At the hearing on Tuesday 5 March, the judge gave DWP 14 days to make a case against the judicial review, saying it was too soon to have a full...

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‘Worried To Death’ About The ‘Bedroom Tax’

The Welfare News Service asked our readers how the introduction of the ‘Bedroom Tax‘ – or ‘Spare Room Subsidy’ as the Government prefer to call it – will impact upon their lives and those of their...

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Letters: Disabled Mum Needs Spare Room – Bedroom Tax

Our 19-year-old daughter, moved out into her own flat earlier this year, leaving my husband and I with a spare bedroom. I am disabled and my husband is my carer, but he also has his own health issues....

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Exposed: The Letter Which Appears To Show Pressure Upon Jobcentre Staff To...

DWP Whistleblower Letter Recommended29 January, 2013 -- Letters: “Playing Games With Peoples Lives” Letter Received From Morag Fraser I was sent to *Atos for a medical on 01/05/12. The man I saw, did...

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Letters: How the Government Are Trying To Divide And Rule

I really wish that the people of the UK would wake up and realise that there is a master-plan at play. A plan that our government is using the media to help along. They are turning us against each...

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Letters: Cheshire East Council To Adopt Employee Living Wage

Cheshire East Labour Group Press Release: At the Cheshire East Council meeting in December a motion to increase the hourly rate of the lowest paid workers at Cheshire East Council to a Living Wage of...

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Letters: Atos In £2k Disability Discrimination Settlement

EMBARGO: Not for release before 1.00 am Friday 12th April 2013 I’m a 20+ years moderate to severely affected ME sufferer. Atos Healthcare have paid out £2,000 + costs (in the process of being...

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Letters: Open Letter To Minister For Disabled People, Esther McVey

Dear Esther McVey MP, We the undersigned have been shocked and appalled at you and your Minister’s persistent use of dubious facts and statistics regarding DLA. We ask that you make use of the raft of...

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Letters: Child Protection Services Judged Inadequate

Ofsted, the national body responsible for quality assurance in services for children, recently carried out an unannounced inspection of Cheshire East Council’s arrangements for the protection of...

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Letters: I Feel Like The Government Is Punishing Me For Being A Carer

Dear Sir/Madam, For some time now I have heard of a lot of people been adversely affected by this government. I am a full-time carer, my wife is severely disabled and in a lot of pain and discomfort. I...

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Guest Post: DWP And “People Like Me” – At Least This Has A Happy Ending

I am disabled. There is no getting around it so let’s get this out-of-the-way first. I’m fully blind, have an arm that’s “died” and awaiting selective amputation, unable to walk for long due to spine...

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Letters: 96 Year Old With Dodgy Hip Not Entitled To Blue Badge

The number of people with disabled parking permits or ‘blue badges’ has increased in recent years. Under the old system a GP was asked to verify whether the person could walk 100m. It is not easy to...

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Letters: Carers Not Given The Recognition They Deserve

It is not a recognisable job role and people think I just stay at home because I am 'lazy' or cannot be bothered.

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Letters: Government Policy Fails To Solve Housing Crisis

There is widespread political agreement that there is a national housing shortage and that not enough new houses are being built.

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Guest Post: Support The ‘Britain Cares’ Campaign And Show Disabled People You...

The public is being asked to show that it backs state support for disabled people as part of a new campaign from the disability charity Scope.

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Guest Post: Disabled STILL Shunned By British Society

Is this the kind of society you want to live in where disabled people are made to feel like this?

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DPAC Report Into The Abuse Of Statistics By DWP And Government Ministers

35 cases where Ministerial claims using statistics on the subject of Work and Benefits have fallen short of the standards expected of Government Ministers.

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Disability Hate Crime: When Is Enough Going To Be Enough?

It wasn't losing my sight that was the most difficult to comes to terms with, but how you're treated by society.

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Letters: Living With Bipolar Disorder In The Welfare System

The last 3 years have been the most difficult as I have had to prove to the government that I am not fit to work.

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Letters: Disabled Family Faced With Eviction Over ‘Bedroom Tax’

Disabled family face eviction from their home over the coalition government's controversial 'bedroom tax'.

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