Source Independent: Ministers have spent almost £40m in an “appalling” attempt to stop sick and disabled people receiving the financial help they are entitled to, The Independent can reveal.
DWP spends £39m defending decisions to strip benefits from sick and disabled people Read More »
Source MS Society 16,500 plus people sent a message to party leaders demanding they protect disability benefits. We’re part of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a network of more than 80 disability charities and organisations. And today we came together with our communities to deliver an open letter to party leaders, urging them to make no
Source BBC: More than 50,000 disabled people have had specially adapted vehicles taken away since changes to disability benefits in 2013.
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Source Newbury MS Society: Are you worried about claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP)?
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Source The Guardian: MPs and patient groups have called for an end to the repeated assessments that people with progressive diseases must undergo in order to qualify for disability benefits.
Stop PIP reassessments for patients with progressive diseases, campaigners say Read More »
From our patron, Martin Salter: On behalf of the ‘Save the RBH Hydrotherapy Pool Campaign’ we would like to thank everybody who signed our petition or supported the campaign in other ways. You may have seen in the press the announcement from the hospital Chief Executive Steve McManus that plans to close the pool had
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Campaigners from the Save the RBH Hydrotherapy Pool Campaign have warmly welcomed today’s announcement from the hospital Chief Executive Steve McManus that plans to close the pool had been abandoned and that the hospital trust is “committed to the continuation of hydrotherapy provision, whether this is on the Royal Berkshire Hospital site or through alternative
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Source BBC: The chief executives of more than 30 charities have written to ministers urging them not to restrict access to a disability benefit.
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