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Reblogged from Grannie's Last Mix:  There have recently been a number of reports in local newspapers up and down the country of ...

Sweeping changes to the welfare system could be leaving people already struggling with mental health issues contemplating suicide. Tha...

Reblogged from AAV: In August 2013 a leaked copy of a Public Health England report revealed an alarming 23,400 spike in the number of...

Reblogged from Izzy Koksal: ‘Izzy, nothing is impossible…’ he tells me reassuringly, he starts to read one of the many motivational quot...

Seven doctors employed by the company that carries out controversial “fitness to work” tests for the government are being investigated by t...

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

Reblogged from Sue Marsh: Any of you who just watched the car-crash that was Esther McVey trying to undermine the credibility of the Spart...

The government has announced the name of the man who will continue the crucial task of reviewing its “fitness for work” test. Dr Paul Litc...

'Ministers, the police and social workers have been accused of a 'shocking' failure to prevent the spread of modern slavery ...

DPAC's Website goes down - shortly after publishing a letter from Iain Duncan Smith ---------------------------------------------...

New advice issued to doctors, patients and employers on sick pay shows just how far the Government intend to push the brutal regime for peop...

As part of a new campaign to highlight the highly damaging impact of the government's welfare changes, particularly in relation to Emplo...

Graham Brady, Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West, put down three questions for the Health Secretary. Written answers were provided...

Debbie Jolly reports on US insurance giant Unum, whose ‘biopsychosocial model’ is being used to justify the devastating cuts in disability ...

The £30m fund promised by David Cameron will cover just £2.71 of the £14-a-week loss in housing benefit facing disabled claimants. By far ...

John Mackintosh a so-called Manager for the WCA Process at Atos thinks his company is compassionate, this poor fellow has obviously been t...

The government has been accused by MPs of “manipulating” its own benefit statistics in a bid to justify scrapping working-age disability l...

 Churches claim several "myths" have emerged as a result of the way information is used  By John McManus BBC News ...

Created on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:45 Claimants could be left without any income replacement benefit at all when challenging a d...

A plea from Lynn Blackmore: “Please would people kindly sign this petition which ends 20th March.  I have tried very hard to get this to 1...