The government is in denial over the impact of cuts on disabled people
The government claims disability organisations support its welfare reform agenda and say disabled people are protected from cuts. These 2 myths need debunking.
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While the super-rich get a tax cut, disabled people are the hardest hit by Tory welfare cuts
Andrew Kaye, co-author of the Hardest Hit coalition’s new report, “The Tipping Point” writes about how the cuts are hitting disabled people the most.
Watch: George Osborne gets bood at the Paralympics – while Gordon Brown gets cheered
George Osborne was booed at the Paralympics yesterday – while Gordon Brown was cheered.
The nasty department: DWP threaten to take disabled children away from parents
The DWP is sending out threatening, menacing letters to disabled parents, ordering them to do as they say or risk having their children taken into care.
CPAG: Osborne’s £3bn tax credit cuts “may have deepened the recession”
George Osborne’s swingeing tax credit cuts of £3 billion may have contributed to the dire Q2 downturn, the Child Poverty Action Group said today.
How the public massively overestimates benefit fraud
The huge discrepancy between the reality and public perceptions of benefit fraud legitimates government reforms and backs Labour into a political corner.
Look Left – The Tory Olympic legacy, Osbornomics under siege and IDS
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Now the Tories come for the blind people’s benefits
It emerged today the Tory-led government has plans to attack the benefits of blind people, reports Shamik Das.
How DWP’s incompetence cost taxpayers and disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
“According to my tax breakdown, Daily Mail readers are the biggest scroungers”
Cormac Hollingsworth turns the tables on the Daily Mail’s ‘tax breakdown’ campaign.