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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleLetters: 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....
View ArticleExposed: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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.
View ArticleLetters: 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.
View ArticleGuest 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.
View ArticleGuest 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?
View ArticleDPAC 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.
View ArticleDisability 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.
View ArticleLetters: 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.
View ArticleLetters: 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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