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'Benefits Britain', a Study in Enabling Hate Speech 15 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
I didn't watch Monday night's "Benefits Britain: 1949" on Channel 4, a show which subjected three victims (difficult to think of them otherwise) to a supposed version of the 1949 benefits regime, as t...
20m PIP Consultation: Last Chance to Respond 4 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
This post is just a brief reminder that the DWP's consultation into the 20m limit for PIP Higher Rate Mobility closes on Monday 5th August. Anyone intending to respond who has not yet done so needs to...
Get Better... Or Else? 24 Jul 2013 | 11:54 pm
Disabled people have precious few illusions left about how the DWP views us, but a new pilot programme is going to take that relationship into even more disturbing territory. Starting in November, 300...
Atos Slated by DWP... 23 Jul 2013 | 11:54 pm
... but is that good for us, or bad? As the whole country, and media, descended into Royal Baby frenzy, the Department of Work and Pensions chose their moment to slip out the news that Atos had failed...
Disability, The New Axis of Evil 11 Jul 2013 | 12:26 am
The House of Commons debated an Opposition Day motion today calling for disability benefit cuts to be subjected to a cumulative impact assessment – the radical idea that if you subject someone to not ...
PIP Consultation Update 5 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
The ‘Consultation on the PIP assessment Moving around activity’ (to give it its DWP title) is ongoing, with responses due by 5th August 2013. What this consultation gives disabled people is the chance...
#PIP 20m Consultation: It's All About Cost 24 Jun 2013 | 10:36 pm
The new DWP Consultation on the restriction of PIP Higher Rate Mobility Component to people unable to walk 20m rather than unable to walk 50m is now available here with a closing date for responses of...
We Know Where You Live! 23 Jun 2013 | 11:28 pm
Is there any more chilling threat? It’s one I heard for real a couple of years ago, three men in their 50s yelling it across the high street at me as I walked to the bank one afternoon. “This is the D...
#PIP: A 20 Metre Primer 20 Jun 2013 | 12:12 am
With DWP forced into a new consultation over limiting the PIP mobility component only to people unable to walk further than 20m (after carrying out a prior consultation in which every draft said 50m, ...
PIP: A Step in the Right Direction 17 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm
It isn't often we can say it, but the disability lobby has today forced the DWP to take a step backwards in their never-ending erosion of the rights of disabled people, by forcing them to go back to c...
