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As many of you will know, later today, Labour will force an opposition day debate calling on the government to carry out a cumulative impact assessment on all the cuts to services and support facing at sick and disabled people. We know that…
There was an interesting piece by James Kirkup in the Telegraph last Friday that didn't get much attention, but should have, on the possibility of Labour proposing a link between benefit levels and work history. Kirkup's piece said that…
David Cameron went into the last general election claiming that his Government would be the ‘most family friendly Government ever’. These words came back to haunt him when former Children’s Minister Tim Loughton, a respected figure amongst…
On 28th January 2013 the UK government is due to make a set of changes to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The WCA is the flawed ‘fitness to work’ test which assesses whether sick and disabled people can get Employment and Support…
Ed Miliband’s recent description of the Tory-led coalition as a “make-it-up-as-you-go-along, back-of-the-envelope, miserable shower”, rings depressingly true given the slap-dash and incompetent nature of many of their polices. Yesterday the…
Just over a month ago, the DWP finally decided that they'd made a mistake and I DID qualify for DLA after all. It had been 18 months since my original claim. It took 9 months to reject it initially, then a month or two for them to…
Today Remploy workers will go on strike across the country to defend their jobs, and they deserve our full-hearted support. As with so many of the Government’s cuts, it is the most vulnerable who are singled out time and time again. The…
It’s been two years. Austerity is well under way, and already, cuts that would have been unthinkable before, ease through with barely a murmur. I think we are more likely to think “Thank God it’s not me this time” than “Oh no! Those poor…
Liam Byrne’s Beveridge2 speech yesterday has attracted a lot of attention. Here, three writers on disbility and social security issues give their reponses: Kaliya Franklin: Yesterday's speech on disability and benefits from Liam Byrne was a…
Yesterday, after months and months of uncertainty, the Government announced that they would close 36 of its 54 Remploy factories, with potential compulsory redundancies of 1,752 people, including 1,518 disabled employees. Remploy fulfilled…
I know, the Welfare Reform Bill passed. In a fizzle of shame, it gasped it's way through the Lords last night. But we always knew it would, so I'm going to talk about pooh. If you have Crohn's disease, you live in fear of one thing - the…
[Editor's note: I know many of you have been following Sue Marsh's remarkable campaign against the government's welfare "reform" proposals - especially their dangerous impact on disabled people. I thought I should crosspost this from Sue's…
