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Government’s advisers call for cash help for DLA losers

21/05/2012 – 9:00 am

The government’s own benefits advice body has called for financial compensation to help those disabled people set to lose out from the government’s reforms and cuts to spending on disability living allowance (DLA).
The social security advisory committee (SSAC) said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should ensure some “transitional protection” for those with lower [...]

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Thousands of disabled people to be forced into unpaid work

27/03/2011 – 12:20 pm

Thousands of disabled people are set to be forced to do unpaid work in order to continue receiving their out-of-work benefits, despite the government’s own benefits advice body saying the scheme should not go ahead.
The government introduced new rules this week which will give Jobcentre Plus advisers the power to force claimants of jobseeker’s allowance [...]

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