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6 days ago · A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. …
DWP hides updated figures on life-threatening errors, just as …
6 days ago · The government is hiding figures that would show how often its civil servants are making life-threatening errors when dealing with the benefit claims of disabled people, just as …
Half a million set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘fit for work’ test ...
6 days ago · 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. …
Universal credit barriers mean disabled women face ‘terrifying’ risk …
Jan 30, 2025 · Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of …
Government finally orders research into why disability benefit …
Jan 30, 2025 · The government has finally ordered research into the reasons behind what it claims is a “spiralling” increase in the number of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits. …
Access to Work waiting-list climbs again, despite DWP claims
6 days ago · The number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work (AtW) claim has continued to rise, six months after the government insisted it had improved the …
Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to …
6 days ago · The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through …
New government figures show key policy at heart of disability ...
6 days ago · A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the …
Disabled people ‘have been betrayed’, 20 years on from …
Jan 16, 2025 · Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive …
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The boss of the health and safety watchdog has been asked by a disabled MP why her organisation has never investigated the government’s “fitness for work” test, even though it …