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Martinez brings star quality to fresh assault on coalition’s ‘war on welfare’

24/12/2012 – 9:25 am

Activists are hoping that a new petition – backed by a campaigning disabled comedian – could finally force the government to assess the overall impact of its programme of cuts and reforms to disability benefits and services.
The WOW (war on welfare) petition – which also calls for a free vote for MPs on repealing the [...]

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Budget benefit cuts are ‘serious threat’ to independence

17/12/2012 – 10:00 am

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people without work are to be hit hard by further cuts to their support, despite the chancellor’s claims in his autumn statement that he was protecting disability benefits.
George Osborne announced this week that he would restrict the annual “uprating” increase in most working-age benefits to just one per cent for [...]

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