Department for Work and Pensions
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker: The disabled rights community
Nomination for left-wing thinker of the year: The disability rights community, in trying to change the way the whole country thinks about people with disabilities.
Why did DWP delay releasing new data until after welfare reform bill cleared Commons?
Why was new research from the Department for Work and Pensions, which downgraded estimates for the growth in Disability Living Allowance, a major reason given for welfare reform, delayed until after the welfare bill passed the Commons?
Government’s spin war on disabled continues
The government keeps spinning against disabled people using the work and statistics of the discredited Atos organisation, reports Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
Osborne’s ‘conference treat’ on welfare reform turning into a sticky mess
The benefits cap was wonderful politics for George Osborne - but now the politics is turning sticky as the reality of its impcat hits home.
Society and the media are failing the sick and disabled
Sue Marsh reports on the largest march of sick and disabled people in UK history in reaction to the savage, barbaric, inhuman government cuts to vital support.
Action needed to save informal carers from poverty
Craig Berry reports on the need to provide the UK's six million informal carers with support to prevent them falling into poverty.