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Tens of thousands lose their ESA as welfare reforms begin to bite

10/05/2012 – 9:00 am

Tens of thousands of disabled people have lost all of their out-of-work disability benefits this week, thanks to new rules brought in by the government through its controversial Welfare Reform Act.
The act introduced a new one-year time limit on claiming the contributory form of employment and support allowance (ESA) for those disabled people expected to [...]

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Politicians given New Year rebuke over care funding reform

11/01/2012 – 9:00 am

Four leading disabled figures have backed a call for politicians to “seize” the latest opportunity to reform the funding of adult social care.
The crossbench peers Baroness [Jane] Campbell and Lord [Colin] Low, and Liz Sayce and Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK, were among more than 60 leading figures from the disability, social care and [...]

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