Some of Britain’s finest disabled athletes – and former Paralympians – have spoken of their hopes for next year’s Paralympics in London, and the changes they hope it could bring in its wake.
They were speaking during International Paralympic Day, held for the first time in London, in Trafalgar Square, just a day before tickets for [...]
Disability organisations have greeted the government’s new welfare reform bill with a mixture of caution and outright hostility.
The bill will see disability living allowance (DLA) replaced by a new personal independence payment (PIP), with a new assessment to test eligibility. The government plans to cut spending on the benefit for working-age recipients by a fifth [...]
Government plans to force mental health service-users into work and cut their disability benefits are like “throwing a hand grenade into people’s lives”, according to activists who staged a protest in London this week.
More than 80 activists took part in the demonstration at Speaker’s Corner – in which they burned a two-faced effigy of David [...]
The minister for disabled people has promised that the coalition government will build in “important safeguards for vulnerable groups” to its programme of spending cuts and reforms.
Maria Miller pointed to the decision of the chancellor, George Osborne, to exempt anyone claiming disability living allowance (DLA) from a planned £500 per week cap on benefits.
She told [...]
The government is set to use private companies to trawl through disabled people’s credit histories as part of its latest campaign to cut benefit fraud.
The prime minister, David Cameron, announced this week on a visit to Manchester that the government would unveil an “uncompromising” crackdown on benefit fraud this autumn, which could include tougher penalties [...]