For the full stories, please click on the links: Leading figures in the disability movement say they could stop cooperating with the Department for Work and Pensions if the government’s welfare reform bill becomes law. The London 2012 organising committee’s appeal for volunteers to take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympics [...]
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For the full stories, please click on the links: Opposition and independent peers have secured three key victories over the government in the battle to reverse its planned cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. A new report has revealed “serious inaccuracies” in the assessments of disabled people’s “fitness for work” carried out by the private company [...]
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Disabled activists have condemned a new report – funded by pro-euthanasia campaigners – that suggests assisted suicide could and should be legalised in England and Wales. Four leading disabled figures have backed a call for politicians to “seize” the latest opportunity to reform the funding of adult social care. Three disabled people who could play [...]
A senior government adviser has failed to declare freelance work carried out for the insurance giant set to make huge financial gains through the coalition’s incapacity benefit (IB) reforms, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The adviser failed to declare the work carried out for the insurance company Unum in the register of interests, DNS [...]
The government has admitted failing to carry out any statistical analysis of the results of its controversial disability living allowance (DLA) consultation. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was accused earlier this month of misleading parliament and the public about the scale of opposition to the government’s DLA reforms. In Responsible Reform – otherwise [...]
