Disability News Service

1 week ago | disabilitynewsservice.com | John Pring

A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. The new universal credit and personal independence payment bill, published yesterday (Wednesday), will cause fresh safeguarding concerns for hundreds of thousands of disabled people who pass through the universal credit system.

1 week ago | disabilitynewsservice.com | John Pring

Disabled activists say vital new polling shows that it is not safe to legalise assisted suicide when the government is preparing to cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits.

1 week ago | disabilitynewsservice.com | John Pring

Disabled activists say they “will not give a single inch” in their resistance to billions of pounds of cuts confirmed yesterday by the Labour government in its new universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Other than minor concessions by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, the short “two topic” bill shows ministers are determined to plough ahead with cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) and the disability element of universal credit.

1 week ago | disabilitynewsservice.com | John Pring

Labour ministers are considering whether to start means-testing personal independence payment, which is likely to cut billions of pounds a year more from benefits spending, new information secured from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed. The highly controversial idea would mean payments contributing to extra disability-related costs in future only going to those with less than a certain level of income, savings and investments.

1 week ago | disabilitynewsservice.com | John Pring

Rebel Labour MPs delivered their final warnings to the government this week, ahead of yesterday’s publication of a government bill that will cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. A group of 15 Labour backbenchers (pictured) took part in a photo-call organised by Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and DPO Forum England to show their opposition to the cuts proposed in the government’s Pathways to Work green paper.