‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP...
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again failing to defend disabled people from attacks on their rights, after its peers refused...
View ArticlePotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’ will get up to £1,500 less each year than existing recipients....
View ArticleIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled...
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts – video...
View ArticlePIP suicide woman’s sister blames ‘barbaric’ system for her death
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The sister of a disabled woman who she believes was driven to kill herself by the anxiety caused by re-applying for the government’s new disability...
View ArticleShock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related...
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into work activity “Very dangerous” rules are forcing severely-ill...
View ArticleNobody is Unfit for Work
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and identifying measures to help you and other claimants. It would be good to have some feedback on...
View Article#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to...
"I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government - and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all" ~ Surgeon Dr...
View Article#CripTheVoteUK Heartbroken Mum: ‘DWP has blood on their hands over my Jodey’–...
#CripTheVoteUK 26/5/17: Assistant Coroner Jo Wharton ruled disabled Jodey took her own life as a direct result of heartless DWP who cut her off for not atttending a disability assessment which she knew...
View ArticleRecordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma attacks, accidental overdoses and repeated blackouts, in one of the clearest...
View ArticleMinisters ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many disabled students from entering higher education, without knowing...
View Article‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is the clearest evidence yet that healthcare professionals working for the...
View ArticleConcern over government’s four-year delay on PIP ‘safety’
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Campaigners have asked why it took the government four years – and a tribunal judgement – to ensure that eligibility for a disability benefit...
View ArticleDisabled woman takes DWP minister to court over PIP mental health changes
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 A disabled woman is taking work and pensions secretary David Gauke to court over “unfair and discriminatory” changes that were made to a...
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