DISABILITY WORKS UK STATEMENT: we don’t do sanctions on work programs the job...
Disability Works UK is a not-for-profit consortium of eight national disability charities that have come together to provide tailored employment support to disabled people. Disability Works UK is not...
View ArticleBig Disability Charities exclude user-led organisations again: Boris’...
Boris claimed he was too busy to turn up at a London mayoral ‘hustlings’ organised by user-led organisations Inclusion London and Transport for all (TfA) to listen to disabled people. However, Boris...
View ArticleUnemployed and Disabled in Tory Britain: Government Black Box Approach Horror
What follows is a personal account of the experience of one person and what it is like to be unemployed and disabled in Tory Britain. It shows the contempt that people are treated with by some...
View ArticleDear Department for Work and Pensions………
I am a deputy head of a junior school in a deprived city area and I’m having a lot of problems with the effects of benefit denial/sanctions on my pupils’ and their respective parents’ please allow me...
View ArticleBenefit Justice Summit2 video: A time to Unite
Grandmother Stephanie Bottrill was forced by this Government to find £20 a week that she didn’t have for the bedroom tax. She had lived in her terrace house for 18 years. Last Saturday she left her...
View ArticleSanctions: ‘Punishing Poverty?’ new report by CAB
A new harrowing but unsurprising report by the Citizens Advice Bureau on sanctions found that: -60% of those sanctioned had been receiving JSA, but a further 33% were unfit for work and were...
View ArticleTake Online Action Against The Workfare Conference
On Monday 2nd December the welfare-to-work industry will be splashing out yet more tax payers’ money on their annual workfare conference in a plush Central London venue. Workfare exploiters like the...
View ArticleAusterity Street –the real impacts
In another year of imposed austerity when the Condems voted in a 5% tax cut for all earning over £ 150, 000, another year when unpaid tax by corporations was at £95bn per year, a year that MPs paid...
View ArticleHow can PIP be sanctionable?
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the new benefit which replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA). DLA was introduced in the UK in 1992, and its main purpose was to compensate for the extra...
View ArticleSanctions: IDS behaving unlawfully on a large scale: Almost 9 out of 10 of...
This article draws unashamedly on David Webster’s excellent briefing following the release in February 2014 of sanction statistics for JSA and ESA claimants by DWP. David Webster, who is Honorary...
View ArticleStop Sanctions : 11th Sept Day of Action
(Report from workshop at national meeting of Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice federation) Fighting Benefit Sanctions The government has a policy of increasing sanctions to force people off...
View ArticleNational Day of Protest Against Sanctions, Bedroom Tax and Benefit Cuts
Thursday 11th September 2014 End Bedroom Tax; No Sanctions for Claimants – No Targets for Staff On 11th September the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Campaign is holding a day of protest: say no...
View ArticleEnd Sanctions, Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 11th...
Tory welfare reform is in crisis. Last week 70 Conservative MPs ignored a three line whip and stayed away from Westminster for the vote on Andrew George’s bedroom tax bill. Protests have beaten back...
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