DWP PIP headlines from Reach outlets are not to be believed
There’s a lot of fear among disabled people on DWP benefits like PIP at the moment and much of it is very warranted. With the Autumn Budget coming up and…
campaigner launches hospital charter for patients
Tuesday 29 October is an auspicious day for the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) community. Crucially, it marks three years to the day the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
DWP boss and chancellor urged to scrap WCA changes and cuts
Deaf and disabled people’s organisations (DDPOs) and trade unions have called on Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall to rethink dangerous plans to cut Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) out-of-work…
DWP PIP reforms don’t include means testing yet
Corporate media conglomerate Reach is at its fearmongering, clickbait antics again over Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) plans. Its assemblage of local and national outlets…
Assisted dying group takes funding from tax haven firm
An opaque firm registered in an offshore tax haven that appeared in the Panama Papers is among the largest donors to a major lobby organisation pushing for UK MPs to…
Assisted dying group have links to Keir Starmer and Alan Milburn
One of the major lobby organisations calling for MPs to back a new assisted dying bill, Dignity in Dying, has significant ties to Labour Party prime minister Keir Starmer. On…
Assisted dying campaign group has ties to right-wing think tanks
A key campaign organisation and its sister charity lobbying the Labour Party government to pass a new law on assisted dying has taken significant funds from a billionaire’s philanthropic fund…
DWP benefit fraud is the next Post Office scandal waiting to happen
The Labour government’s latest plans at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a Post Office scandal-scale disaster waiting to happen. Specifically, the department – with a rapsheet of…
An Unfinished History of Disability Activism
Today I get to write about my favourite topic – myself, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, of course. As you may have already seen on Twitter, I’m delighted to share some exciting news…
DWP WCA reforms WILL happen as Labour look to cut £1.3bn
In yet another U-turn, the Labour Party-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to press ahead with plans to ‘reform’ the WCA, outlined by the previous Tory administration.…
half a million people lambast Labour
Campaigners have delivered a petition to parliament from over half a million people. It calls for the Labour Party government to scrap its cruel winter fuel payment cut to millions…
evidence for job advisers in hospitals is flawed
A report on the South London scheme that put job advisers into NHS hospitals is stacked with statistical biases. That being the case, it means that the positive findings from…