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Achieve Your Potential Or Starve, The Government’s Real Message To Young Disabled People
Any campaign from this Government which claims to support disabled people should be viewed with suspicion and the latest offering from the DWP is no exception. The department yesterday put out a press… more →
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Achieve Your Potential Or Starve, The Government's Real Message To Young Disabled People
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wrote 16 minutes ago: Any campaign from this Government which claims to support disabled people should be viewed with susp … more →
Disabled losing benefiits because GPs want money to write letters
wrote 13 hours ago: Can I add to this, I have had 2 clients on Fightback today alone who are agrophobic, and are being f … more →
Court questions Work Capability Assessment
wrote 17 hours ago: Court questions Work Capability Assessment Two people with mental health problems have won a legal c … more →
DWP In the Dock Again, This Time Over Benefit Cap
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wrote 23 hours ago: Another of Iain Duncan Smith’s flagship welfare reforms is to face a court challenge it has be … more →
Victory for mental illness campaigners against DWP and unfair Work Capability Assessments.
wrote 1 day ago: Image: Black Triangle Campaign Three judges ruled that the Work Capability Assessment was unfair and … more →
DWP just can't get its story straight re fake psych 'test'
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wrote 1 day ago: Last month, I revealed that the DWP was forcing jobseekers to take a fake psychometric ‘test … more →
Health and Safety Madness
wrote 1 day ago: The day after their recent local election successes a UKIP member was featured on a news programme b … more →
Slap... Fit to Work: Poets Against Atos
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wrote 1 day ago: I am proud to say my poem, Slap was published on the Fit to Work: Poets Against Atos website today. … more →
WCA Judicial Review Judgement - Good News!
wrote 2 days ago: JUDICIAL REVIEW JUDGEMENT PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH RESISTANCE NETWORK SENIOR JUDGES RULE … more →
Judges find DWP 'fitness for work' test breaches the Equality Act and is illegal
wrote 2 days ago: Reblogged from Vox Political: A judicial review has ruled that the test used to decide whether peopl … more →
Benefits farce hits family of Down’s Syndrome twins
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wrote 2 days ago: When are identical twins not identical? When civil servants say so. Arthur and Alfie Banks-Lowe were … more →
Work and Pensions Committee to Include Stats Quiz in Annual Report of DWP
wrote 2 days ago: The Work and Pensions Committee has decided to examine the way DWP releases benefit statistics to th … more →
When are identical twins not identical twins? When they're disabled and the DWP says they're not.
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wrote 2 days ago: (not satire – it’s the DWP!) The Department of Work and Pensions has assessed two identi … more →
Victory for welfare campaigners as judges rule controversial disability benefits procedure is unfair
wrote 2 days ago: Three judges have ruled that the procedure currently used by the Department for Work and Pensions (D … more →
Another Court Disaster For The DWP As Atos Assessments Ruled Unfair
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wrote 2 days ago: The DWP have lost in the courts again after a tribunal today ruled that the Atos run Work Capability … more →
TOGETHER WE CAN ALL ACHIEVE POSITIVE CHANGE
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wrote 2 days ago: A VERY QUICK POST - TOGETHER WE CAN ALL ACHIEVE POSITIVE CHANGE- OVER 96300 people signed or petit … more →
Boycott Workfare Go To Brighton To Smash Benefit Sanctions
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wrote 2 days ago: Boycott Workfare joined the Civil Service Rank and File Network (CSRF) and Brighton Benefits Campaig … more →
IDS faces TWO canings for statistics abuse
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wrote 2 days ago: In recent weeks, Iain Duncan Smith received a stern rebuke from the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) … more →
Risky business
wrote 3 days ago: The following piece appeared in The Guardian on 22nd May 2013. It is banging a drum we have been bea … more →
