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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
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Tagged Benefits, biopsychosocial, Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, Dr Gordon Waddell, DWP, John Pring, Ola Abu Alghaib, Prof Mansel Aylward, Prof Nicholas Watson, Prof Tom Shakespeare
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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
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Tagged Benefits, Disability news service, Independent, John Pring, Stephen Crabb MP, Turn2us, Welfare reform, Works and Pensions secretary
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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
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Tagged Benefits, biopsychosocial model, Centre for Welfare Reform, Department of Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, FOI, Freedom of Information request, George Faulkner, Lancet, PACE trial, Welfare reform
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Benefits ‘mandatory reconsideration’ consultation ends 15 March 2016
There is still time to contribute to the consultation on mandatory reconsideration. You can request a mandatory reconsideration if you think the decision about your Benefit application is wrong. You can submit evidence you have to support this. If the DWP do … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits, Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, Employment and Support Allowance, ESA, Mandatory Reconsideration
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Duncan Smith wants 2million on sick benefits back to work
Daily Mail article, by James Slack and Jason Groves, 18 January 2016: Duncan Smith bid to get 2million on sick benefits back to work: Work and Pensions secretary to call for shake-up of ‘fundamentally flawed’ system Duncan Smith keen to … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits, Iain Duncan Smith MP, mental health, Welfare reform
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Welsh government wary of plans to devolve Attendance Allowance
Wales online report: Welsh ministers wary of moves to see them take over Attendance Allowance payments 14 January 2016 by Darren Devine Officials fear the UK Government may hand over cash but ‘top slice’ the budget The Welsh Government could take … Continue reading
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Tagged Attendance Allowance, Benefits, Department of Work and Pensions, devolution, DWP, Welsh Government
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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
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Tagged Benefits, Department, DWP, fit-to-work assessments, Iain Duncan Smith MP, WCA, Welfare reform, Work Capability Assessment
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Benefit delays leave families hungry
Wales online article: Benefit errors and delays are ‘making families go hungry and putting their homes at risk’ 21 DEC 2015, BY David Deans The cross-party Work and Pensions Select Committee found that mistakes could leave “vulnerable people in desperate … Continue reading
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Government cuts will make it harder for disabled people to find work
Huffington post article, 8 Dec 2015: Government plans to cut unemployment benefits for disabled people will make it harder, not easier, for them to get back into work, according to a House of Lords report. The Employment and Support Allowance … Continue reading
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590 suicides in England linked to ‘fitness for work test’ (WCA)
Damning’ research on WCA deaths is ‘timely’ reminder of government’s shame, by John Pring, November 20, 2015 in Disability news service Disabled activists say government-funded research, which concludes that the programme to reassess people on incapacity benefit through the work … Continue reading
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