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Tag Archives: benefit sanctions
Now we have proof the DWP has harmed the mentally ill, is Iain Duncan Smith proud?
Excellent article from Mike Sivier @ Vox Political on line TRIGGER ALERT: Please note this article contains reference to mental health issues. Yet again, the Department of Work and Pensions has been revealed as an organ of monstrous bureaucratic cruelty … Continue reading
Court told woman stole clothes to pay rent after benefits cut
Reposted from Ludlow Tenbury & Wells advertiser … and fining this woman is going to help who exactly!!! A Kidderminster woman cliamed she stole to pay her rent after her benefits were sanctioned because she failed to turn up for … Continue reading
Watchdog backs DWP refusal to release 49 benefit deaths reports
Reposted from Disability News Service BY JOHN PRING ON JULY 17, 2015 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told by the information watchdog that it does not need to release secret reviews it carried out into the … Continue reading
Posted in DWP
Tagged benefit sanctions, deaths, Debbie Abrahams, Disability News Service, dwp, Information Commissioner, John Pring
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ELECTION 2015 -The depraved hearts of the Coalition
Reposted from the Mirror on line In the U.S. the term “depraved heart” means; Depraved-heart murder is the form of murder that establishes that the willful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and … Continue reading
Posted in DWP
Tagged benefit sanctions, benefits, depraved heart, dwp, Iain Duncan Smith
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ELECTION 2015 – Food banks: ‘Most people at the school gates have used them’
Reposted from the Guardian Society Chaunte Campbell unpacks food from a food bank, including a tin of tuna donated by Neil Robson (pictured below); she plans to cook a tuna bake for her five-year-old son. Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the … Continue reading
ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions
Reposted from Disability News Service The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative government would cut the out-of-work benefits of people with mental health conditions if they refused treatment. … Continue reading
Benefit scroungers and the royal family
picture reproduced from Daily Mail on line I’ll be honest with you, the first thing I thought when I heard the news of the royal birth was … oh goody, another addition to the civil list. http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/Sourcesoffunding/TheCivilList.aspx It just seems … Continue reading
Posted in Benefit sanctions
Tagged benefit sanctions, David Cameron, Kate Middleton, Prince William, royal family
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Victory for sanctions enquiry
Reposted from Change.org Few of us, I am sure, can forget the tragic and appalling death (by DWP sanctions) of David Clapson https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-hold-an-inquiry-into-benefit-sanctions-that-killed-my-brother His sister, Gill Thompson took to Change.org to petition David Cameron for an enquiry into the benefit sanctions … Continue reading
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Tagged benefit sanctions, Change.org, David Clapson, dwp, DWP select committee, Gill Thompson
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MPs’ inquiry: Five things we’ve learned about benefit sanctions
Reposted from Patrick Cutlers Blog – The Guardian From the effects on claimant health, to why you are more likely to be sanctioned if you sign on in Derby, there was much to learn from this week’s sanctions inquiry hearing … Continue reading
Welsh MP’s horror as figures reveal four in five who have JSA sanctioned “don’t find work”
Reposted from South Wales Evening Post horror as figures reveal four in five who have JSA sanctioned “don’t find work” HAIN NEATH MP Peter Hain has expressed his horror that four in every five individuals who have job seeker benefits … Continue reading
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