Government cuts to vital disability benefits will be even harsher than the coalition previously admitted, with nearly half a million people set to lose their right to disability living allowance (DLA).
The government finally published figures this week which show estimates of how its plans to scrap working-age DLA and replace it with a new personal [...]
A senior disabled MP is to examine the government’s failure to respond to allegations that it misled parliament over its disability living allowance (DLA) reforms.
Dame Anne Begg, the Labour MP who chairs the influential work and pensions select committee, this week raised serious concerns about the government’s “overly dismissive” response to last week’s Responsible Reform, [...]
The disabled activists behind a ground-breaking report that accused the government of misleading parliament over its welfare reforms say major concessions agreed by a coalition minister are a victory for disabled people.
As peers prepared again to consider plans to scrap disability living allowance (DLA) for working-age people and replace it with a new personal independence [...]
Leading figures in the disability movement say they could stop cooperating with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if the government’s welfare reform bill becomes law.
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are becoming increasingly angry at the government’s failure to listen to their views, despite its frequent references to how it is “co-producing” its reforms with [...]
The government misled parliament and the public about the scale of opposition to its reform of disability living allowance (DLA), according to a ground-breaking new report researched, written and funded by disabled people.
Responsible Reform is based on the first independent analysis of the responses to a government consultation on its DLA reforms, which ended last [...]
London’s Conservative mayor has heavily criticised the government’s planned cuts and reforms to disability living allowance (DLA).
Boris Johnson’s opposition to many of the government’s proposals, which are contained in its welfare reform bill, emerged this week thanks to the work of disabled researchers.
They used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the responses of more [...]
Disabled activists who spent months preparing a hard-hitting report that reveals how the government misled parliament over its disability living allowance (DLA) reforms say they are mystified and frustrated by the media’s failure to cover the story.
Despite huge interest in the Responsible Reform report across social media – with the report “trending” on Twitter at [...]
The decision to reject a leading disabled activist’s application for disability living allowance (DLA) has fuelled fears that the government is deliberately turning down eligible claims as part of its programme of spending cuts.
Sue Marsh has had seven life-saving operations to her bowel, endures chemotherapy injections every fortnight, experiences daily exhaustion, pain and nausea, has [...]
The government has been accused of “incompetence” after it finally abandoned plans to remove mobility support from disabled people in residential homes.
The decision was announced today by Maria Miller, minister for disabled people, following months of criticism and campaigning by disabled activists.
The plan to save £160 million by removing the mobility component of the personal [...]
The government has refused to say how it will fund its decision to abandon plans to remove a key mobility benefit from disabled people in residential care.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the move – announced today by the Conservative minister for disabled people, Maria Miller – would be funded through other measures [...]
The government appears to have left out any mention of the brutal cuts to disabled people’s benefits and services in a crucial report about how it is implementing the United Nations (UN) disability convention.
The report was submitted today (Thursday) to the UN by the UK government’s Office for Disability Issues, and describes measures that are [...]
A cabinet minister has been heavily criticised after again appearing to encourage national newspapers to run stories attacking disabled benefit claimants.
Last week, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith was criticised by the work and pensions committee for “pandering to the Daily Mail” and sending out misleading press releases about incapacity benefits.
Duncan Smith protested that [...]
A report into one of the most controversial of the government’s planned welfare reforms has been given a cool reception by leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs).
The review of the government’s plans to remove mobility payments from disabled people in council-funded residential care concludes that the move would be a serious breach of their human rights.
It [...]
Thousands of disabled people and other campaigners took part in a series of anti-cuts protests last weekend in more than a dozen towns and cities across the UK.
The rallies and marches took place under the banner of The Hardest Hit, the campaign organised by the UK Disabled People’s Council and members of the Disability Benefits [...]
Trials of the assessment for the benefit that will replace disability living allowance (DLA) show the test is worryingly similar to the government’s discredited “fitness for work” assessment, say campaigners.
The government has been trialling questions for the test it plans to introduce for its new personal independence payment (PIP).
But disabled activist Linda Burnip, who has [...]