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London 2012’s golden girl says DLA cuts and reforms are ‘massive step back’

07/03/2013 – 3:00 pm

One of the stars of the London 2012 Paralympics has said that the government’s disability living allowance (DLA) reforms and spending cuts will damage her chances of defending her two track gold medals at Rio 2016.
Hannah Cockroft is the most high-profile Paralympian yet to speak out about the coalition’s reforms and its plans to cut [...]

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Government stats show most new ESA claimants are not ‘fit for work’

29/01/2013 – 3:00 pm

New figures show for the first time that a majority of new claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are – eventually – found not “fit for work”.
Conservative ministers – particularly the former employment minister Chris Grayling – have previously made much of figures that they claimed showed most new employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants were [...]

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