Daily Archives: 27/03/2011

Seeking parliamentary selection was ‘absolute nightmare’, says disabled politician

A disabled councillor has described to MPs and peers the “absolute nightmare” she experienced when trying to win selection as a parliamentary candidate.
Marie Pye, a Labour councillor in Waltham Forest, said she had had an “incredibly positive” experience as both a council candidate and an elected councillor.
But she contrasted this with her two attempts to [...]

Thousands of disabled people to be forced into unpaid work

Thousands of disabled people are set to be forced to do unpaid work in order to continue receiving their out-of-work benefits, despite the government’s own benefits advice body saying the scheme should not go ahead.
The government introduced new rules this week which will give Jobcentre Plus advisers the power to force claimants of jobseeker’s allowance [...]