Tag Archives: Benefits
Disability Benefits – what help is available?
WAMES Benefits Info Sheet A new Info Sheet from WAMES will help you find information on the different benefits and help available to people who are ill, or caring for someone who is ill. Included in the sheet are … Continue reading
WAMES & 100+ organisations call for urgent Covid-19 changes to the Benefits system
DBC letter to Secretary of State on emergency Covid-19 measures 30th March 2020 The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a network of over 100 organisations, have written an open letter (below) to Thérèse Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and … Continue reading
DBC Universal Credit survey – your experiences needed
Universal Credit survey launched! October 31, 2018 The Disability Benefits Consortium has launched a Universal Credit survey #UCandme so that we can find out more about the experiences of disabled people and people with long term health conditions. [WAMES is a … Continue reading
Work capability assessment overhaul planned for disabled
BBC news article, 30 October 2016: Work capability assessment overhaul for disabled The scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits faces a major overhaul, following claims by a charity that it is “fundamentally flawed”. A consultation on reforming the Work … Continue reading
DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments
Disability Rights UK blog post, 8 Aug 2106: DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field MP, has welcomed the DWP’s change of heart on a target for benefit underpayments. … Continue reading
Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’
Disability news service news article, by John Pring, 9 June 2016: ‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’ The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than a decade is riddled with … Continue reading
Crabb’s mixed signals on fresh disability benefit cuts
Disability news service blog post: by John Pring, 12 May 2016: Crabb’s mixed signals on fresh disability benefit cuts The new work and pensions secretary has sent out mixed signals on whether he wants to make further cuts to spending on … Continue reading
Misleading medical research underpins disability cuts
Centre for Welfare Reform report, by George Faulkner, 14 April 2016: In the Expectation of Recovery: misleading medical research and welfare reform Description / abstract: The attack by the UK Government on disability benefits has only just started to receive mainstream … Continue reading
DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save
Independent article: DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save, report reveals, by Oliver Wright, Political Editor, 8 January 2016 Government will pay £1.6bn in next three years to private contractors who carry out controversial assessments. The Government is … Continue reading
