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Campaigners set for legal action as welfare bill clears final hurdle

10/03/2012 – 9:00 am

The government’s controversial welfare reform bill – which will see huge cuts to disability benefits, among other major changes – has cleared its final parliamentary obstacle and is now set to become law.
Following the failure of peers and MPs to reverse the most damaging aspects of the bill, disabled people’s organisations are now likely to [...]

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Welfare reform bill ‘could breach human rights’

23/12/2011 – 9:00 am

A committee of MPs and peers has suggested that parts of the government’s controversial welfare reform bill could breach disabled people’s human rights.
The joint committee on human rights (JCHR) – whose members include the disabled peer Baroness [Jane] Campbell – said some of the most controversial measures in the bill could contravene the European Convention [...]

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