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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Doctors' Legal duty over resuscitation orders

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Doctors now have a legal duty to consult with and inform patients if they want to place a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on medical note...

Bring Back immediately State Pension for Women at 60. Men/Women Against Tax Allowance Loss From 65

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Older people forced onto workfare when disabled and chronic sick will just end up spending most of their time at doctors or in hospita...

Trade Unionists plan to oust McVey over disability rights

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TRADE unionists in Merseyside plan to “depose” a government minister they accuse of making disabled people’s lives a misery by ensuring ...

Work Programme ‘Failing Those Most In Need And Should Be Broken Up’

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A Jobcentre Office. Photo credit: jovike via photopin cc The £1.2bn Work Programme, the government’s flagship welfare to w...

UK poverty on par with former Eastern bloc

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The poorest fifth of British households are among the most economically deprived in western Europe and suffer levels of poverty on a par wi...

Clegg in ‘cash for honours’ row over his biggest donors: Two-fifths of Lib Dem donations came from three men… and they’ve recently been made peers

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‘Nick Clegg was embroiled in a fresh ‘cash-for-honours’ row last night after the extent of the party’s financial dependence on millio...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Backlog of assessments for ESA. Double the passport backlog, but none of the coverage

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Originally posted on alittleecon : Via the Vox Political blog , I learn that it was admitted yesterday by the DWP that there was a b...

If the DWP reckons it’s getting decisions right, why are people still suffering?

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Originally posted on Vox Political : He knows he’s in trouble: Mike Penning, shortly after removing his foot from his mouth whi...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Chris Grayling Is A Lying Bastard Court Hears At Workfare Tribunal

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Originally posted on the void : So desperate are the DWP to hush up the names of charities using workfare that they have been redu...

IDS’s historic links to the far-right

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Originally posted on Pride's Purge : (not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!) No one should be surprised by the extremities of Du...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Panellists hijack Question Time to attack Iain Duncan Smith

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Originally posted on Vox Political : Finger-jabbing protest: Iain Duncan Smith talked over Owen Jones in his last Question Time...

Food bank charity told to stop criticising benefit system or face shut-down – by the government

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Originally posted on Vox Political : What would  you do in that situation? It seems that food bank charity The Trussell Trust ...

Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides'

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The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK researchers. ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

WCAs ‘Leaving Sick And Disabled On A Knife-Edge’

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Leading mental health charity, Mind, has today released a damning report that shows the coalition’s work programme is failing to meet the...

Lancet classifies Fluoride as a neurotoxin. About bloody time.

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This is HUGE news and no one is talking about it. The Lancet, the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journal, recently pub...

ESA Claims On The Rise: Is IDS Making Us Sick?

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Originally posted on the void : The total number of claimants claiming out of work sickness or disability benefits rose by 15,000 be...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

DWP believes universal credit is dead, tribunal president reveals

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Evidence has emerged that the DWP believes that universal credit (UC) is dead.  Officially the department insists that ‘the vast majorit...

Tory policies cause poverty and trying to discredit Oxfam won’t mitigate that truth

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Oxfam posted this image on Twitter as part of a campaign on falling living standards and poverty in the UK. Conservative MP’s are angry a...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

At last, Atos turn whistle-blower!!!!

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We knew this day would come. We've known for a while that it was coming, but finally it's happened, as it always had to. The gloves ...

Family demand answers after hospital-bound 86-year-old faces disability payment cuts

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THE family of an 86-year-old woman are demanding to know why their loved-one is being forced to undergo medical tests to make sure she st...

IDS blames rise of food banks on ‘evangelism’ – pot, kettle, black?

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Crocodile tears: Everybody thought Iain Duncan Smith had a change of heart at Easterhouse and intended to help people. Instead, under h...

Atos was 'lightning rod' for anger over benefit changes

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Atos has faced protests about its role in delivering welfare changes in the UK The company which is quitting its contract t...
Monday, June 9, 2014

A Letter Provided By A DWP Whistleblower

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From ATOS Miracles on Facebook.

If DWP lawyers don’t attend tribunals it means benefit claimants AREN’T cheating, Daily Mail!

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Originally posted on Vox Political : The Fail has struck again with a comically inaccurate piece about benefit appeal tribunals. ...

Top judge proclaims ‘virtual collapse of WCA process’

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Judge Robert Martin, the outgoing president of the social entitlement chamber which deals with benefits tribunals, has claimed that the wo...

Govt assessment delays are causing deaths – are ministers trying to shift blame?

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Originally posted on Vox Political : He knows he’s in trouble: Mike Penning, staring down the hole in his claims about Atos. Th...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Outrage as 'anti-homeless spikes' spotted outside London building

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The spikes, designed to prevent vagrants from sleeping in doorways have sparked anger on Twitter after photos of a London doorway went vir...

Britain's breadline kids: Up to 5 million children will be living in poverty by 2020

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New research by Oxfam has revealed the true extent of the amount of British children living in poverty, with families taking drastic meas...

Disabled mum died alone and penniless after her benefits were stopped

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The heartbroken family of Annette Francis say she had struggled without any money for six months before she died Anger...

End Sanctions Now – joint statement by DPAC, BT and Boycott Workfare

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posted from  Boycott Workfare Boycott Workfare is a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive welfare. Wo...