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Labour appears set to plough ahead with billions of pounds of cuts a year to disability benefits, after this week’s spending ...
Fresh concerns have emerged about the government’s commitment to solving the accessible housing crisis after the chancellor ...
Companies will be allowed to launch self-driving taxis and minibuses in pilot schemes in England as early as next spring even ...
Major insurance companies – including one that spent years lobbying the government to tighten eligibility for out-of-work ...
Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut ...
The Labour government has refused to explain why more than a third of the members of a new steering group that will target ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by ...
“Heartless” government reforms that will eventually scrap the “fitness for work” assessment “defy logic” and pose significant risks to sick and disabled people who cannot work, say activists who have ...
New powers that would allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “snoop” on the bank accounts of benefit claimants would treat disabled people like criminals and further destroy trust, say ...
Welfare rights experts have produced evidence that backs up the findings of a Disability News Service (DNS) investigation into the lies told by healthcare professionals in their disability benefit ...
Ministers have no idea how much impact their cuts to disabled people’s benefits will have on levels of disability poverty, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. DWP published ...
Labour has broken its promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election, according to confidential party policy documents. The party was insisting ...