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For updates bewteen 16th April, 2016, early June, 2016, please visit ARGOTINA1
April
16/4/16 “Apparently I’ve Lived Too Long For The DWP”
15/4/16 DWP 'punishing the working poor' with new sanctions in Universal Credit system
15/4/16 Mother who faced bedroom tax eviction after son’s suicide found hanged with note to David Cameron
15/4/16 Food bank use hits another record high
15/4/16 Conscript Carers
14/4/16 Lesley Riddoch: The reality of the DWP’s horrific sanctions regime
14/4/16 Tribunal rules DWP must release information from secret benefit deaths reviews
14/4/16 Unicef criticises UK's failure to tackle child inequality as gap grows
14/4/16 Disability Assessors Must Be Properly Trained Says BPS Following Monday’s Dispatches Programme
13/4/16 Legal aid cuts so bad that Salford law students to offer free help in benefits cases
13/4/16 Lords limit ministers' powers on council house sales
*28/3/16 (*Rec. 12th April) Government spends £100,000 on lawyers to defend the bedroom tax
11/4/16 Sanctioned For Being In A Coma
10/4/16 Low paid working families to be hit with another UC hammer blow.
10/4/16 Devastating Tory NHS mental health budget cuts mean there are days when NO beds are available.
7/4/16 ‘Serious failings’ in disability assessments, despite payments of £500 million a year
7/4/16 Equality watchdog to mirror UN inquiry into DWP’s rights violations
6/4/16 The benefit change that could put 330,000 families on the street
6/4/16 Thousands of disabled claimants wrongly barred from Personal Independence Payments
6/4/16 Paralympics hopeful Carly Tait: ‘My lifeline is being taken away’
6/4/16 George Osborne’s Working-Age Benefit Freeze Comes In Today, Here’s Four Groups Affected
4/4/16 Stephen Crabb Wants To Sack Private Sector Disability Assessment Firms
4/4/16 UK Government's housing policy targeting homeless families is 'tantamount to social cleansing’
March
31/3/16 Woman had benefits stopped while she was in a coma
31/3/16 Even when you die they still don’t give a monkeys about you.
31/3/16 'Serious failings' in disability benefits assessment system
31/3/16 Exclusive: Success rate for claiming disability benefit falls a quarter in just one year
29/3/16 The embarrassing reason the DWP won’t get the sick and disabled back to work
29/3/16 Benefit cuts hit 300,000 of the poorest households with hefty council tax hikes
29/3/16 New pension rules will see 6 million workers lose up to £37 a month
29/3/16 Tory cuts leave poverty-stricken children too hungry to learn
28/3/16 Money to be given to the rich is exactly what was to be taken from the disabled.
28/3/16 More than six million workers to be stripped of take-home pay under stealth tax raid.
28/3/16 Universal Credit : In work, part time claimants sanctioned for taking holidays and …… for working!
25/3/16 Homeless children dying from neglect and abuse after families moved out of their local areas
23/3/16 Figures prove Help to Work doesn’t help and doesn’t work
23/3/16 Billions of pounds of welfare cuts on way despite PIP U-turn
21/3/16 Disability benefits: 'It's a witch hunt against disabled people'
21/3/16 Reversed Disability cuts? The government has hardly scratched the surface.
21/3/16 It is simply no longer possible to be disabled and a Tory, says angry activist
17/3/16 Osborne clobbers low paid freelancers and deals fresh blow to women born in the 1950s in Budget 2016
16/3/16 Lifelong Tory activist quits party over Osborne budget and sabotages website
13/3/16 Dying woman returns from honeymoon to be told her vital mobility car is being taken away
12/3/16 Government Cuts Benefits to Reward Rich with Another Tax Cut
11/3/16 Partially sighted amputee told he no longer qualifies for disability benefits
11/3/16 Shocking Announcement: Disability Benefits To Be Slashed For 640,000 People
9/3/16 “For Me, The ESA Cuts Mean The End Of Independence”
7/3/16 Maximus Whistleblower: Criteria Meant I Had To Diagnose Mental Health Patients As Well
5/3/16 Tory climbdown over pay-to-stay plan to raise social housing rents
5/3/16 More than a million Britons have been to see GPs over rent worries, says Shelter
3/3/16 Gateshead pensioners to be given food destined for landfill in bid to stop malnutrition in town
February
15/2/16 Has the penny finally dropped? Or is this just more madwash? The Mental Health Taskforce report.
15/2/16 Terminally Ill Man Left ‘Totally Broken’ By DLA-PIP Transfer.
12/2/16 250 evictions per day: 2015 saw record number of home repossessions.
11/2/16 An office full of nurses and no antiseptic wipe.
11/2/16 Compliance interview (Sick person victimised - "The police have accepted this as a hate crime").
11/2/16 Phil Brehaut has Parkinson’s. Threatening to cut his benefits won’t help him back to work.
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