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Showing posts with label #RoadToRuin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #RoadToRuin. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2015

Growing Evidence DWP Staff Forced To Impose Benefit Sanctions

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There is growing evidence that Jobcentre staff are being pressurised into imposing sanctions against benefit claimants, an SNP MSP has...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Re-elected Con-Dems could cost £9 billion

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Coalition strategy on low pay could cost the taxpayer £9 billion more over the next five years if the present Government is re-elected...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Benefit Sanctions Will Cause A Deterioration In Health And That’s OK Says DWP Rule Book

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Originally posted on the void : Physical punishment is now built into the benefit system with sanctions both known and intended to...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

How benefit sanctions punish people with mental health problems the hardest

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Some of the most vulnerable people on benefits are being sanctioned at alarming rates - even when they're in hospital. Going th...

10 empty homes for every homeless family in England

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  635k homes are left empty in England alone. Meanwhile homeless numbers keep rising. One of the most shocking illustrations of t...

UNUM … know thine enemy

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At a time when the main focus of attention appears to be on Maximus, the company taking over Work Capability Assessments, Mo says ...

‘Zombie’ Parliament has nothing to do because of Cameron’s self-importance

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The cat’s out of the bag – tying Parliament to a fixed term of five years was an “irresponsible” act that has “diminished Parliament in...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Young jobless too depressed to leave their house says shock report

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Prince's Trust Macquarie report says long-term youth unemployment has caused a mental health crisis Isolated: More than half of tee...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

NHS: From ‘record high’ satisfaction to ‘breaking point’ within four years of coalition government

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The NHS was in excellent shape when Labour left office in 2010; now it isn’t. For this the coalition must take some of the blame When t...
Monday, January 5, 2015

UN special rapporteur to censure UK government

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Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s rapporteur on violence against women, says she was denied access to detention centre The official repor...

Tory Councillor Says Food Banks Only Used By Those With Drug, Alcohol Or Mental Health Problems

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This Tweet was sent after Casualty recently covered malnutrition caused by benefit sanctioning. Read more...

How Cameron misled on cuts in his Marr interview

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PM is giving the false impression that most of the pain lies in the past.  In January 2010, after George Osborne's promise of an ...

'Death, depression and crime for people who are out of work' - Kate Belgrave

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A few thoughts as we kick into the year. Interviews from people who’ve been sanctioned at the end of the post: As you’ll no doubt ...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

‘Road to Weimar’ image shows Tories can’t be trusted to tell the truth

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“It’s a British picture, a British road,” George Osborne told Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News . What a shame he was lying. “Tory road ...