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Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite ...
Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ ...
Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the ...
Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support ...
Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if ...
The minister for disabled people is facing calls to resign after posting a hostile and “dangerous” post on social media that warned benefit claimants his department would “track you down” and “bring ...
New official figures have confirmed that only a “miniscule” proportion of spending on disability benefits is paid out to fraudulent claims, just weeks after the disability minister posted a “hostile” ...
The future of the government’s Access to Work (AtW) disability employment scheme is in jeopardy because of “bureaucratic incompetence” and a cost-cutting drive to reduce people’s support packages, ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should not have stopped the benefits of a disabled man who later starved to death, an updated safeguarding review has found after being shown information DWP ...
More than a third of employers who signed up to the government’s discredited disability employment scheme failed to employ a single disabled person after they joined, according to a report ...
Disabled activists have explained why they travelled from across England to protest outside the headquarters of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at social security reforms they say will put ...
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has refused to say when the new Labour government will address the care charging crisis that is leading disabled people to face unlawful discrimination ...