DWP
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.
Take the coalition’s ‘Tory Boy’ posturing on welfare claimants with a pinch of salt
Neil Coyle gives a robust, evidenced based analysis of the latest DWP figures on disability benefit re-assessments and attempts to get people back into work.
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.
A new low in DWP’s war on disabled benefit claimants?
On Friday, Left Foot Forward published a guide to faking up a benefits story in five easy steps using publicly available data; somebody followed the steps almost to the letter in concocting a story in today’s Sun.
The weirdness at the core of Universal Credit
As the details emerge of the government’s big ticket welfare reform, the introduction of Universal Credit, it looks as if for once the hubristic language might be justified.
When governments act in haste, there’s more chance of policy errors occurring
There are some government policies that no matter what angle they are viewed from do not seem to make sense, writes Anthony Painter.