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In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009
- A disabled man who swallowed poison in a jobcentre in an attempt to take his own life, after becoming “overwhelmed” by the harmful actions of the Department for Work and Pensions, has pleaded guilty to possessing a chemical weapon. buff.ly/3RSHyL2
- The broadcaster Jeremy Vine is facing angry calls for a personal apology after a member of his team published a social media post in his name that asked if it was time to “crack down” on sick and disabled people on out-of-work benefits. buff.ly/3WK8rRX
- The decision of the Department for Work and Pensions to publish figures showing the total cost to the economy of disabled people who cannot work has been described as a “chilling” echo of the “useless eaters” propaganda of 1930s Germany. #DWP
- The prime minister has been asked to explain his government’s “onslaught” on disability rights, in a letter signed by more than 25 disabled people’s organisations and allies. buff.ly/3wwKxAT
- The minister for disabled people is facing calls to resign after posting a hostile and “dangerous” post on social media that warned benefit claimants his department would “track you down” and “bring you to justice”. buff.ly/41MVxEK
- The DWP has been accused of “absolutely disgraceful” behaviour after confirmation that it hid vital evidence from a statutory safeguarding inquiry into why a disabled man starved to death after his benefits were wrongly stopped. #DeathsByWelfare #DWP buff.ly/3ILlFZd
- Tories silent on why their ministers ‘sat on’ DWP research for six years
- Today I'm seriously questioning why I do what I do. Across the country there are, apparently, just a handful of people interested in significant evidence that #DWP is in a state of crisis and facing near collapse of its benefits systems. How is this not critically important?
- The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have hidden crucial evidence from an inquiry into how a disabled man starved to death after having his benefits wrongly stopped. buff.ly/3NZYJbM
- 'You cannot scare people into good health, and you cannot force people into inaccessible jobs.' @RishiSunak is asked to explain his 'onslaught' on disability rights, in a letter signed by more than 25 disabled people’s organisations and allies.
- A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty. buff.ly/3P29eeh
- New figures have confirmed that only a “miniscule” proportion of spending on disability benefits is paid out to fraudulent claims, just weeks after the disability minister posted a “hostile” video on social media suggesting it was a serious problem. buff.ly/42OjHiy
