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Anger as government adds disabled people to workfare scheme

13/12/2012 – 3:00 pm

Disabled people could now be forced to work indefinitely for their out-of-work benefits, as a result of new government rules introduced this week.
Those who fail to co-operate with the periods of “work experience” arranged for them could have their benefits cut.
The new rules – introduced on the UN’s international day of disabled people – will [...]

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Artist will stare “fitness for work” fears in the face with public exposure of her bed life

31/10/2012 – 11:21 am

An award-winning disabled artist is to spend three days in bed in front of an audience, in an attempt to portray the contradictions of her impairment, and the government’s “miserable, terrifying, punishing” fitness for work assessment regime.
The writer-director-activist Liz Crow is forced to spend much of her life in bed because of her impairment, but [...]

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