emsyblog.wordpress.com
The Tory’s slash and burn budget cuts: next week is going to hurt. | EmsyBlog
https://emsyblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/the-torys-slash-and-burn-budget-cuts-next-week-is-going-to-hurt
So I'll start a revolution from my bed…. Larr; Budget Day: The cold, hard numbers of rich and poor Britain. Boiling point: when marching isn’t enough. The Tory’s slash and burn budget cuts: next week is going to hurt. July 2, 2015. I plan to write a more detailed post for budget day. But this part couldn’t wait. Let’s look at some of the news stories from the past few days:. The Independent Living Fund (ILF) has been scrapped,. A leaked DWP memo. Concentrating on the amount of worklessness and educationa...
dwpunspun.org.uk
The shocking truth about Britain’s ‘lazy’ unemployed | DWP Unspun
http://www.dwpunspun.org.uk/item/the-shocking-truth-about-britains-lazy-unemployed
Skip to main content. Especially stupid benefit sanctions. Universal Credit key data. The shocking truth about Britain’s ‘lazy’ unemployed. George Osborne complains of claimants ‘ sleeping off a life on benefits. So are the unemployed to blame for unemployment, rather than a lack of jobs? Read these headlines and decide. Tragic youngster killed himself because he couldnt get a job - but was too proud to claim benefits. Daily Mirror, 20/5/14. Daily Mirror, 23/3/14. The Star, 16/1/14. BBC News, 7/2/13.
dwpunspun.org.uk
Your guide to the great welfare fiasco | DWP Unspun
http://www.dwpunspun.org.uk/guide/the-great-welfare-fiasco
Skip to main content. Especially stupid benefit sanctions. Universal Credit key data. Your guide to the great welfare fiasco. Everything you wanted to know about care and benefit cuts but were afraid to ask. The great welfare fiasco. 1 Shared accommodation/under 35s. D Disability benefits and support. 1 Independent Living Fund. 2 Personal Independence Payments. 3 Employment and Support Allowance. E Work and unemployment. 3 The work programme. F Council tax benefit abolished. Cuts to housing benefits are ...
dwpunspun.org.uk
Malcolm Tucker | DWP Unspun
http://www.dwpunspun.org.uk/item/comms
Skip to main content. Especially stupid benefit sanctions. Universal Credit key data. IDS loses legal appeal to keep universal credit problems secret. Politics.co.uk, 26/6/14. Food bank charity ‘was threatened with closure by Iain Duncan Smith’s aide’. Iain Duncan Smith continues to hide reports showing failure of universal credit. Politics.co.uk, 21/5/14. Iain Duncan Smith used false statistics to justify disability benefit cuts. Politics.co.uk, 16/5/14. Doubts over disability figures. Your browser does...
underoccupied.net
My Bedroom Tax Story | UnderOccupied
https://underoccupied.net/my-story
Views From the Spare Room: Carers, Disability and Politics. My Bedroom Tax Story. Bedroom Tax – 2. Warren’s first holiday. My Bedroom Tax Story. I’m just a bloke living in a small village in Pembrokeshire, west Wales who was minding my own business, living with my wife, Sue, and my step-grandson, Warren Todd. So already you can see that its not really just my. Story at all. But let’s not digress! Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It, just that we were not entitled. Sue and I thought this must. PCC], for a ...
dwpunspun.org.uk
Mickey Mouse | DWP Unspun
http://www.dwpunspun.org.uk/item/uc
Skip to main content. Especially stupid benefit sanctions. Universal Credit key data. Head of Strategy, Universal Credit. Universal Chaos: Iain Duncan Smiths welfare scheme in doubt. Politics.co.uk, 8/7/14. Government’s flagship benefits reform still not approved by Treasury. Universal Credit “reset”: was there an attempt to bury the bad news? New Statesman, 28/5/14. Universal credit: how the problems emerged – timeline. Universal Credit’s disastrous figures for social landlords and social housing. DWP w...
dwpunspun.org.uk
About | DWP Unspun
http://www.dwpunspun.org.uk/item/about
Skip to main content. Especially stupid benefit sanctions. Universal Credit key data. All government departments spin, but the Department for Work and Pensions. Seems to spin harder and faster than most. Financial Times political correspondent Kiran Stacey describes a typical encounter. DWP: We’ve got a story for you. Figures show that the benefit cap is working and it hasn’t even been brought in yet. How do they do that? Me: Right, and how do you know they are coming off because of the cap? The departme...
jennymorrisnet.blogspot.com
Jenny Morris: July 2015
https://jennymorrisnet.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html
Wednesday, 15 July 2015. Yesterday, 14th July 2015, I spoke at the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance conference in Sheffield. The number of people there, and the level of debate and contributions, were a tribute to the growing strength of the disability movement. Here’s the text for the speech I gave at the beginning of the day (what I actually said was a bit shorter than written here). So what are the good things we can identify in the political situation that faces us? It’s a term which is part and...
