Disability
Reports round-up - Dpac stages protests against Tory Universal Credit
Activists in Disabled People Against Cuts (Dpac) held a day of action against Universal Credit (UC) on Wednesday of last week.
Universal Credit linked to rent arrears
Nearly three quarters of all tenants on the Universal Credit (UC) benefit in East Lothian, Scotland, are in rent arrears.
LETTERS: ‘I was made to go through interrogation by the state’
Plus, cuts to mental health services, South Africa after Zuma and more
Wry hitman fantasy shows wheelchair users’ reality in Kills on Wheels
It’s no secret that disabled film roles tend to be played by able-bodied actors.
Court justifies councils’ race to bottom for disability assistants
The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal against an earlier judgement allowing Oxfordshire County Council to cut Luke Davey’s social care package by almost half.
LETTERS: The UN tore the Tories to shreds on disabled people’s rights
In Geneva, Switzerland, last week, the United Nations (UN) disability committee told Britain’s government that its cuts have led to “human catastrophe”.
UN officials slam Tories for breaching disabled people's human rights
23 August 2017Britain’s government is breaching disabled people’s human rights, a United Nations (UN) committee heard yesterday, Wednesday.
People hold big rallies to defend the NHS
06 June 2017Thousands of people have rallied in support of the NHS in the last week, showing their outrage at the Tories’ attacks.
Disabled person’s suicide shows up the Tories’ cruelty over benefit cuts
09 May 2017Government welfare ‘reforms’ are having deadly consequences for disabled people. Eleanor Claxton-Mayer investigates the devastation of the cuts
Tory 'tweaks' to disabiilty benefits will hit thousands of claimants
18 April 2017The number of people refused disability benefits has seen a massive spike in the past year.
'Removing guards removes our safeguard'—passengers denounce Southern Railway
11 April 2017People protested at London Bridge station.
Protesters condemn cruel regime of benefit sanctions
04 April 2017Benefit sanctions rob money from people who are already in poverty, leaving them with nothing. But there is resistance.
‘I was crying and in pain'—the truth behind the Tory benefit cuts
21 March 2017The Tories ramped up their war on disabled people with dangerous new “reforms” to the personal independence payment (Pip) benefits last Thursday.
Reports round-up: Nazis drowned out in Alloa
14 March 2017Nazis drowned out in Alloa
Tories’ spiteful attack hits 150,000 disabled people
28 February 2017Tory ministers have rewritten the law to deny increased benefit payments to more than 150,000 people.
Southern Rail deal should be rejected
07 February 2017Southern Rail are proposing a deal to end the long dispute with Aslef and RMT unions but the promises fall well short of what is needed.
Benefit attacks have violated disabled people’s rights, says United Nations
08 November 2016Tory benefit reform has meant “grave or systematic violations of rights of people with disabilities”, the United Nations (UN) has found.
LETTERS: Tories’ attacks on benefits make claimants more sick
08 November 2016The government’s claims to help Employment Support Allowance (ESA) sickness benefit claimants into work are ridiculous.
Brutal truth behind Ken Loach benefit film
11 October 2016Veteran left wing director Ken Loach’s new film tells the story of a joiner who stops work due to ill health.
Rights not games: Disabled People Against Cuts activist speaks out
08 September 2016Why we blocked Westminster Bridge and are right to protest
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