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Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.
An internal inquiry at the Department for Work and Pensions into the covert regime of welfare targets at jobcentres says it has found no evidence of the practice – yet it accepts that action is taken… more →
Ipswich Unemployed Action.
Coalition In turmoil with their Bedroom Partners
wrote 13 hours ago: Coalition In turmoil With Their Bedroom Partners Libdems: It is alleged that some Conservatives seni … more →
The Reality of Welfare Reform
wrote 1 day ago: When I first started on disability research, I just saw the numbers. I saw that 40% of ESA claimants … more →
Pension Power speaks out
wrote 1 day ago: Pension Power: At a recent conference for the National Federation of Occupation Pensioners(NFOP) the … more →
Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.
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wrote 2 days ago: An internal inquiry at the Department for Work and Pensions into the covert regime of welfare target … more →
Labour: The Party of the non-workers.
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wrote 3 days ago: Labour MP Frank Field has torn into Ed Miliband for opposing Conservative welfare reform on BBC Radi … more →
Scottish benefit claimants face tests as GPs fail to provide information
wrote 3 days ago: THOUSANDS of benefit claimants are being subjected to stressful fitness-for-work tests because GPs a … more →
Media: The Homeless Are Abusing Our System, Someone Says.
wrote 3 days ago: Photo: The Sun [Online] – http://www.thesun.co.uk This week The Sun broke the story that … more →
NO LONGER SHALL I BE BAILING OUT THIS COALITION
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wrote 4 days ago: One family man’s truthful story on how these Governmental policies and cuts are affecting his … more →
Skint, Channel Four: Is this How We Live?
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wrote 4 days ago: Last night I watched Skint, a Channel Four ‘real-life’ documentary about the long-term u … more →
QUEEN’S SPEECH - a disappointment for Tameside
wrote 5 days ago: I have to say that I found the Queen’s Speech the other week a complete disappointment, not least be … more →
Tragic lessons
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wrote 5 days ago: ‘She was fine before this bedroom tax. It was dreamt up in London, by people in offices and big hous … more →
Heard at...Benefit Justice Summit 2
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wrote 5 days ago: Maybe it was a symbolic two fingers up, or more likely because the Jubilee line offers wheelchair ac … more →
Iain Ducan Smith playing bully boys politics
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wrote 5 days ago: When will the Secretary of State for Work and Pension Iain Duncan Smith start to smell the coffee an … more →
Welfare Reform - Are you ready for the benefit changes?
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wrote 5 days ago: We have all heard lots about the changes in the news… But, how are these going to affect you? … more →
[Trigger Warning] Stephanie Bottrill and how not to report suicide.
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wrote 6 days ago: Contact the Samaritans by phone on 08457 90 90 90, 24 hours a day, or log onto www.samaritans.org. S … more →
DWP calls benefit sanction 'achievement' and 'positive outcome'
wrote 6 days ago: Reblogged from The SKWAWKBOX Blog: I've written much over the past couple of weeks about the DWP's a … more →
Myth busting: facts and figures (Update from previous myth buster).
wrote 1 week ago: A lot of myths, untruths and exaggerations are being peddled on the issue of disability benefits, pa … more →
Tabloid ignorance ignores the threat of poverty in the age of welfare reform
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wrote 1 week ago: Does the value of an individual’s benefit make their crime more shocking? Both the Mirror and Daily … more →
EVENT: IMAGINE Research Café on Work, Incapacity and Resilience (17th May 2013, Sheffield, UK)
wrote 1 week ago: [If you are interest in disability research, you may be interested in this...] Event: IMAGINE Resear … more →
