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  • April 8, 2013
    Government minister Esther McVey’s untrue claims about Disability Living Allowance

    Disability Living Allowance is an “outdated benefit” for which “around 50 per cent of decisions are made on the basis of the claim form alone - without any additional corroborating medical evidence,” stated UK minister for disabled people Esther McVey on the BBC and elsewhere this morning (8 April 2013).

  • April 6, 2013
    Disability rights campaigners protest at Amazon depot

    Disability rights campaigner and WOW petition organiser Susan Archibald has joined with fellow protestors to demonstrate at Amazon’s depot in Halbeath, Fife.

  • February 25, 2013
    Channel 4 Dispatches: benefit cuts and disabled people

    Channel 4 television's respected 'Dispatches' series will carry a programme on Disability Living Allowance at 8pm tonight (Monday 25 February). It is entitled, perhaps rather sweepingly and unhelpfully, 'Britain on Benefits'. Nonetheless, it will be important viewing.

  • January 10, 2013
    Cutting benefits to sickest may backfire

    The UK government’s Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will hit even seriously ill people and their families, specialists have pointed out. The controversial measure involves limiting increases in most working-age benefits to one per cent a year for three years from 2013-14 – a drop in real terms, since the cost of living is rising considerably faster.

  • August 30, 2012
    The brave new world of paralympian defiance

    “A millionaire with a private cinematograph, all the necessary props and a troupe of intelligent actors could, if he wished, make practically all of his inner life known. He could explain the real reasons of his actions instead of telling rationalised lies, point out the things an ordinary man has to keep locked up because there are no words to express them. In general, he could make other people understand him.” So wrote George Orwell in his 1940 essay 'New Words'.

  • June 26, 2012
    Prime Minister’s strange claims on Disability Living Allowance

    In a speech urging further cuts to welfare, UK Prime Minister David Cameron once again tried to win support by making out that those receiving benefits have too easy a time. He claimed that, of those receiving Disability Living Allowance, “incredibly, half of new claimants never had to provide medical evidence”. This is indeed incredible, in the sense that it should not be believed.

  • May 14, 2012
    Ignoring truth to slash disabled people’s benefits

    Many people across Europe have recoiled from harsh austerity policies, which are badly affecting the poorest in society as well as ordinary families. But the UK government is determined to take the cuts even further. Half a million people will lose disability living allowance, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has proudly announced.

  • January 20, 2012
    Greens back pressure on government over flawed welfare reforms

    The Green Party has backed campaigners who say changes to Disability Living Allowance and other welfare benefits will push more people into poverty and distress.

  • January 16, 2012
    The reality of DLA - Spartacus stories

    In preparation for the House of Lords debate on the Welfare Reform Bill (WRB) tomorrow, where Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will be in the spotlight, the #spartacusreport campaign (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/spartacusreport) has launched a fresh initiative - #spartacusstories, which gives people the opportunity through Twitter, blogs and other social media to tell their own stories of why DLA is important to them and the realities of living and surviving as a sick or disabled person.