DWP staff admit ignoring safeguarding rules for vulnerable claimant
Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that there isn’t time to worry about safeguarding, nor do staff follow the rules around it all the time…
Lightning Process gaslights long Covid patients
The BBC has exposed how an insidious group of predatory charlatans have been gaslighting long Covid patients. It revolves around a pseudoscientific treatment known as the ‘Lightning Process’. It would…
DWP to face inquiry into deaths of disabled people
Today in “that bump under the rug? Oh it’s just important disabled news don’t look at that”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has announced they are launching an…
DWP PIP payments are being stopped due to internal errors
I’m supposed to be writing about something completely different right now, but as I was working on that I got some news that made my blood curdle. The DWP has…
180,000 stripped of DWP benefits in latest move
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stripped over 180,000 people of their benefits. It is doing so through its so-called ‘managed migration’ process. Specifically, this is where the…
Spinal cord injury cases in the UK nearly double previous estimate
New data reveals the number of people injured or diagnosed with a spinal cord injury is approximately double that previously estimated. Spinal cord injury cases: drastically underestimated A new data…
BACME conference behind closed doors, as ME patients call it out
The 11 to 17 May 2024 is myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Week. This year, two major conferences are taking place throughout the week. One is the inaugural ‘Unite To Fight’…
DWP hiring new fraud agents amidst more benefit claimant bashing
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is once again ramping up its benefit criminal rhetoric around Universal Credit. Specifically, it has announced its plans to hire 2,500 ‘external agents’…
Labour six pledges just completely ignored disabled people
After weeks of hearing the awful changes the Tories have got planned, the Labour Party took to the podium today to announce their pre-election pledges. While there was a lot of…
Healthy life expectancy falls under Tories to lowest on record
Shock new figures reveal that our healthy life expectancy – the amount of time we can expect to live in good health – is now a year less than it…
housing association torturing chronically ill woman
A housing association – Adra – is torturing a severely chronically ill woman and putting her life at risk. She lives with both Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and severe myalgic encephalomyelitis…
1.5 million women in the UK now unable to work
New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the number of women economically inactive as a result of chronic illness has increased by more than 500,000 over last five…