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A woman in her late 40s from East Dorset can expect to receive £67,000 more in state pension when she retires, compared to a women of th...

Reblogged from Scriptonite Daily: One of the purported achievements of the Coalition government’s disastrous economic policy of auste...

On Monday 29 July 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales, will consider the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) appeal against...

I need to hear from NGOs and sick and disabled individuals willing to act as "victim" in a UN complaint or inquiry Please circu...

Reblogged from enoughisenoughdwp : Nothing left to do but die It has taken 3 days to type this, I can't concentrate for long an...

Reblogged from the void: Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Fraud and Housing Minister Mark Prisk will both be speaking at the national ex...

The Great Crapsby. Artwork by Dan Murrell for the New Statesman Like Fitzgerald’s doomed, self-fictionalising hero Jay Gatsby, the Wo...

The Trussell Trust Food Bank founders, The people behind it: The Trussel Trust, was introduced to dole offices specifically as an alte...

Esther McVey: Talk to the hand The government has cited one line in the guest  foreward of a review of the work capability assessment...

The Salvation army has recently received flak for its involvement with forced labour and the assertion that appears on their web site :  ” T...

Reblogged from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger   This morning, like the night after Agincourt, lefties like me scan the bloody, burnt out ...

Fuck Off Smiffy. Okay, lets talk common sense. Ian Smith – because that’s who the cunt really is - couldn’t cut it as the Tory party ...

Christian organisations including the Salvation Army and the YMCA are participating in “workfare” schemes, using workers who must work witho...

This is the first in occasional series on welfare myths - those persuasive facts that everybody knows to be true, but which, on closer exami...

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has launched an astonishing attack on the BBC for repeatedly referring to one of his we...

Around 70 people gathered at a well attended protest outside the Royal Court of Justice today to demand a halt to the close of the Inde...

A FOI Request has confirmed Capita will not be offering PIP Claimants the opportunity of having their assessments audio recorded as was p...

Reblogged from Sue Marsh And that's how it goes folks. Being me these days. Suddenly, out of the blue, someone sends me something so p...