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Report ‘paints first human picture of impact of cuts’

06/11/2012 – 3:00 pm

A new report is the first to demonstrate the likely devastating impact on disabled people’s lives of the government’s cuts to disability benefits, say campaigners.
The report, The Tipping Point, warns that the cuts could tip disabled people into “poverty, debt and isolation”.
A survey of more than 3,500 people for the report found that 85 per [...]

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DWP snubs Hardest Hit’s Christmas greeting

26/12/2011 – 9:00 am

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has turned away disabled activists who wanted to deliver a campaigning Christmas card on behalf of 23,000 people who signed a petition calling for urgent changes to the welfare reform bill.
Representatives from The Hardest Hit campaign had told the DWP they would be delivering the card – designed [...]

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