Disability News Service

Budget extends the agony, as disabled people face further wait for Labour’s decisions on benefit cuts

Disabled people will have to wait until next month, and possibly December, to discover the government’s plans for cuts and ...
Disability News Service

Budget is ‘miniature sticking plaster’, disabled people warn as they await Timms and Milburn reports

Disabled people’s organisations have labelled yesterday’s budget as “superficial” and a “miniature sticking plaster” as they ...
Disability News ServiceOpinion

Alarm bells ringing after minister says all work is good for health, and he wants ‘everyone’ to get a job

The employment minister – backed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – appears to have trashed the government’s ...
Disability News ServiceOpinion

PIP review member delivers powerful rebuttal to research by colleague that called for cuts to child DLA

A member of the steering group reviewing the future of personal independence payment (PIP) has delivered a powerful rebuttal ...
Disability News ServiceOpinion

The Times blocks DNS from raising concerns with its readers about DWP deaths, in response to Burnham ‘welfare inquiry’ article

The Times has blocked Disability News Service from alerting its readers to research which exposed how previous reforms to out ...
ESA

DWP is forcing distressed claimants to attend weekly meetings, says whistleblower

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has warned that harsh new policies that are forcing more disabled people to attend weekly face-to-face jobcentre meetings could lead to benefit ...
ESA

‘Appalling’ and ‘frightening’ Reform ‘ready to legalise discrimination’ by scrapping Equality Act

Disabled activists have accused Reform UK of readying itself to “legalise discrimination”, after its new equalities “shadow minister” said the party would repeal the Equality Act on its first day in ...
ESA

DWP hounded disabled woman for years before her ‘starvation’ death, papers show

A disabled woman whose body was found in her flat months after all her benefits had been removed had been hounded for years by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and repeatedly failed by ...
ESA

Timms refuses four times to rule out cuts to PIP, but makes firm promise on cash payments

The minister leading a government review of personal independence payment (PIP) has refused four times to rule out cuts to spending, but he has promised no disabled person will be forced to accept ...
ESA

Telegraph articles ‘legitimise’ hate speech, disabled activists tell TUC conference

Union activists have called for action over discriminatory articles in a national newspaper that “legitimise” hate speech by attacking disabled benefit claimants. Disabled journalists – backed ...
ESA

New investigation on NEETs will only target young disabled people, DWP document shows

A new “independent” investigation into the rising number of young people who are not in jobs, training or education will exclusively target sick and disabled claimants, a government document has ...
ESA

Campaigners pledge to fight to ensure ministers stick to new air travel promises

Campaigners have warned ministers that they will fight to ensure the government keeps its promise to introduce laws aimed at improving the protection offered to disabled air passengers. In its ...