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Government’s ‘secret plan to strip claimants of DLA’

22/03/2013 – 3:00 pm

The government appears to have a secret plan to reassess disability living allowance (DLA) claimants who have “indefinite” awards, in a bid to sidestep delays to implementation of its benefit reforms.
Three disabled people, who all work or volunteer as welfare advisers in different parts of the country, have described to Disability News Service (DNS) what [...]

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Government ‘manipulated’ DLA figures to try to justify cuts

09/03/2013 – 10:00 am

The government has been accused by MPs of “manipulating” its own benefit statistics in a bid to justify scrapping working-age disability living allowance (DLA).
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimed that the number of DLA claimants was increasing, but neglected to point out that working-age recipients have actually been falling.
On Monday – the same [...]

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