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Plans to cut ESA by £30 defeated in House of Lords
Guardian article, by Patrick Butler, 27 January 2016 Tories defeated in Lords over plans to cut ESA by £30 a week Peers vote by 283 to 198 to send proposal back to Commons, in second welfare and work bill setback for … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, Employment and Support Allowance, ESA, Guardian, House of Lords, Iain Duncan Smith MP, Welfare and work bill, Welfare reform
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Petition to House of Lords: Don’t cut benefits for people living with disabilities
38 degrees petition: Don’t cut benefits for people living with disabilities To: Members of the House of Lords Please make sure the Welfare & Reform Bill doesn’t punish people who are too unwell to work. Please support Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson’s … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, e-petition, Employment and Support Allowance, ESA, House of Lords, Welfare reform
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DBC wants your experiences of applying for PIP
Personal Independence Payment survey. The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), of which WAMES is a member, wants to find out more about disabled people’s experiences of applying for and getting this payment. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete and … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, Personal Independence Payment, PIP
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Disabled people lobby Westminster against welfare cuts
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), of which WAMES is a member, organised a lobby at Westminster where disabled people met with their MPs to discuss the cuts to benefits that disabled people need. There was a particular focus on the … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, Disability Rights UK, Lord Low, Tanni Grey Thompson
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Charities say abandon ESA cuts which will affect disabled people’s health
The Disability Benefits Consortium (of which WAMES is a member) presented the results of their recent survey on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to the UK Government, October 27, 2015 : Almost 70% of disabled people say cuts to ESA will … Continue reading
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£10 billion further welfare cuts – Hardest Hit campaign response
The Hardest Hit campaign has responded to the UK Chancellor’s announcement that the Government is to press ahead with plans to slash an extra £10 billion from the welfare budget by 2016-17. Steve Winyard, chair of the DBC campaigns group … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, Hardest Hit campaign, welfare cuts
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Disability Benefits survey
The Disability Benefits Consortium invites you to complete their survey if you are claiming (or have tried to claim) disability benefits. It asks about ESA, DLA and back to work support and should inform their work to influence Government benefits … Continue reading
