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Where's the Benefit?: Four things from the Conservative Party Conference #cpc14
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Wednesday, 1 October 2014. Four things from the Conservative Party Conference #cpc14. 1) Housing Benefit for 18-21 year olds. In general students are ineligible for housing benefit, but many disabled students are. Cuts to Disabled Students' Allowance. Were announced earlier in the year, though they've recently been postponed. In his speec...
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Where's the Benefit?: So It Turns Out We Can’t Trust Labour on the ILF
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Friday, 6 February 2015. So It Turns Out We Can’t Trust Labour on the ILF. Sadly I had to tell him that this wasn’t the case, that the Disability News Service and others had been chasing party central for a clarification, and were instead meeting evasion - Miliband causes chaos with answer on ILF closure. And if we can’t trust Labou...
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Where's the Benefit?: Benefit Cuts for People with Depression Who Refuse Treatment Are Barbaric and Misunderstand the Problem
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Tuesday, 20 January 2015. Benefit Cuts for People with Depression Who Refuse Treatment Are Barbaric and Misunderstand the Problem. According to the Express. The DWP is planning to cut benefits for people with depression or anxiety who refuse treatment. This is a seriously misguided policy, for several reasons:. Treatment is usually a comb...
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Where's the Benefit?: Tory Cuts: As Bad as we Feared
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Friday, 27 March 2015. Tory Cuts: As Bad as we Feared. And they are everything we feared. The proposed cuts (with 'savings' per annum where known) are:. Industrial Injuries Compensation Scheme. To be restricted to people eligible for Universal Credit. 40% of carers to lose eligibility at a stroke. £1Bn. To be means-tested, meaning 300,000...
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Where's the Benefit?: January 2015
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Tuesday, 20 January 2015. Benefit Cuts for People with Depression Who Refuse Treatment Are Barbaric and Misunderstand the Problem. According to the Express. The DWP is planning to cut benefits for people with depression or anxiety who refuse treatment. This is a seriously misguided policy, for several reasons:. Treatment is usually a comb...
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Where's the Benefit?: Taxing Disability
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Sunday, 5 October 2014. Not satisfied with canning the lowest rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) care, or reducing the distance one can walk from 50m to 20m in order to be able to qualify for its successor benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP): Iain Duncan Smith now wants to tax DLA and PIP. But just because someone's earning...
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Where's the Benefit?: June 2014
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Tuesday, 10 June 2014. Atos Put the Boot Into Disabled People Yet Again. The full story can be read in this BBC report: "Atos was 'lightning rod' for anger over benefit changes". And here in the Guardian " Disability claims system needs to change, Atos tells MPs. Sue Marsh has a slightly more positive interpretation on her blog. Concerned...
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Where's the Benefit?: March 2015
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Saturday, 28 March 2015. Election 2015 - Quick, Get the Crips Out of the Attic. In a perfect example of disabled people being thought of as solely useful as a PR gimmick, Esther 'they get better'. Who campaigned for our voices to be heard at the Tory party conference. And it occurs to me that given the Tory gagging of charities under the ...
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Where's the Benefit?: October 2014
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Friday, 24 October 2014. An Open Letter to the LGBT Community. I went to see Pride. Last week. Yeah, I know it was released a month earlier but my dad was in hospital at the time so I was mostly just seeing the A12 as I drove up and down it. And it was certainly a long, long, time before I realised I was gay. Harder by the cuts. With the ...
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Where's the Benefit?: An Open Letter to the LGBT+ Community
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Campaigning against the government's distressing war on disabled benefit claimants. All posts represent the opinions of their respective authors and not WtB as a whole. Friday, 24 October 2014. An Open Letter to the LGBT Community. I went to see Pride. Last week. Yeah, I know it was released a month earlier but my dad was in hospital at the time so I was mostly just seeing the A12 as I drove up and down it. And it was certainly a long, long, time before I realised I was gay. Harder by the cuts. With the ...
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