New official figures have undermined one of the government’s key justifications for reforming and slashing spending on a vital disability benefit.
The disability living allowance (DLA) statistics were only passed by the government to selected newspapers this week and led to stories highlighting what was described as a huge rise in the number of claimants over [...]
A new inquiry into plans to reform disability living allowance (DLA) is set to increase pressure on the government to describe the true impact on disabled people of its controversial proposals.
The inquiry will be carried out by the Commons work and pensions committee, which is chaired by the disabled Labour MP Dame Anne Begg.
It will [...]
A campaigning disability charity has taken the first step in a legal action against the government over its planned cuts to disability benefits.
Disability Alliance (DA) has issued a “letter of claim” to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), asking it to prove that it has properly analysed the impact of proposed cuts of more [...]
Care should be free for all people with “eligible” needs who become disabled before the age of 40, according to a commission set up to recommend changes to the funding of long-term care and support in England.
The Commission on Funding of Care and Support concluded that the current adult social care funding system was “not [...]
The government has been accused again of stirring up hostility against disabled people and running a “deliberate smearing campaign”, after stories appeared in national newspapers about alleged abuse of the Motability car scheme.
A Sunday Times “investigation” claimed friends and relatives were misusing the cars that disabled people have obtained through the Motability scheme, while the [...]
Campaigners are hoping to persuade peers to make significant changes to the government’s welfare reform bill, after coalition MPs approved measures that could see hundreds of thousands of disabled people lose some or all of their benefits.
The bill passed its report and third reading stages in the Commons, despite Labour opposition, and now passes to [...]
The government has refused to name the “independent specialists” advising it on the new assessment that will test eligibility for the benefit set to replace disability living allowance (DLA).
In its response to the consultation on its DLA reforms, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says it is developing the assessment for the new personal [...]
A cabinet minister has refused to confirm if the government still plans to cut welfare spending by £135 million a year by removing a key benefit from disabled people in residential care.
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith confirmed that the government would be reviewing its proposal to remove the mobility component of disability living [...]
Opposition MPs have criticised the welfare reform bill for its lack of detail and have called on the government to abandon plans to scrap disability living allowance (DLA).
But although Labour MPs queued up to criticise elements of the bill during this week’s second reading in the Commons, all but a handful of rebels abstained rather [...]
An influential committee of MPs has heard direct evidence from disabled people about their fears over the government’s disability benefit reforms.
Dame Anne Begg, the Labour MP who chairs the Commons work and pensions committee, had asked disabled people to take part in the experimental session so she and her colleagues could hear the “real voices [...]
Disability organisations have greeted the government’s new welfare reform bill with a mixture of caution and outright hostility.
The bill will see disability living allowance (DLA) replaced by a new personal independence payment (PIP), with a new assessment to test eligibility. The government plans to cut spending on the benefit for working-age recipients by a fifth [...]