Daily Archives: 13/10/2011

Campaigners issue legal warning over peer’s ‘disgrace’ comments

Disabled activists were forced to threaten a peer with legal action after she attacked their campaigning efforts as “a disgrace” on a high-profile website.
Black Triangle campaigns against the unfair use of the government’s work capability assessment to reclassify disabled people as “fit for work”, and has played a major role in raising awareness of concerns [...]

Insurance giant denies welfare reform will boost its profits

The UK’s largest provider of “income protection insurance” (IPI) has denied that it stands to gain financially from incapacity benefit reforms that campaigners believe it helped to influence.
Unum launched a major media campaign this year aimed at persuading more working individuals to ask their employers to provide them with IPI, which is intended to pay [...]