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3 天之前 · A right-wing broadcaster is likely to escape police action despite describing young disabled people on out-of-work benefits as “parasites”, in a case that highlights long-standing …
Ministers could merge disability benefits and want to cut future ...
Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green …
Children’s commissioner ‘increasingly dismayed’ at numbers …
3 天之前 · The children’s commissioner has said she has become “increasingly dismayed” by the number of disabled and other children with “complex needs” who are being deprived of their …
Mounting evidence of assessment crisis, as DWP halts WCA …
2024年11月14日 · Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. Delays …
Half a million set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘fit for work’ test ...
3 天之前 · More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. …
Evidence mounts of disability benefits white paper’s fatal flaws
3 天之前 · Evidence is mounting that government plans to reform the disability benefits system are fatally flawed. Last week’s Transforming Support white paper appears to be slowly unravelling, …
DWP hides historic ‘fitness for work’ papers from National Archives
3 天之前 · The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped sending key records from a crucial period in the history of disability benefit reform to The National Archives so they can …
Disabled opponents of assisted suicide tell MPs of ‘high price’ of ...
2024年11月14日 · Four disabled people have given evidence to a parliamentary inquiry to try to fight back against the well-funded campaign that aims to push parliament towards unsafe …
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The most senior civil servant in the Department for Education (DfE) has told MPs that educating disabled pupils in mainstream schools is usually much cheaper and produces “similar or better …
Access to Work in crisis as figures show ‘massive’ waiting-list
2024年11月14日 · The government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme is in crisis, with new figures showing the number of disabled people waiting for decisions on their applications has more …