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Welfare reform: household benefit cap Q&A
Ministers say a £26,000 cap on the amount of benefits families can receive will cut the deficit and incentivise people to find work What is the household benefit cap? The government is proposing to introduce a £26,000 cap on the total amount of benefits that working-age people in the UK can receive (including job seeker’s allowance, housing benefit, child benefit and carer’s allowance), limiting it to £500 a week for families, or £350 for childless single adult households
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Welfare reform: household benefit cap Q&A
How the Spartacus welfare cuts campaign went viral
Disabled activists use #spartacusreport Twitter storm to help inflict hat-trick of welfare reform defeats on the government in the Lords Something extraordinary happened last week in the volatile micro-blogging world of Twitter: a medium normally obsessed by celebrities, football and sex turned its collective attention instead to disability. A handmade campaign against welfare
Welfare cuts: Cameron’s problem is that people are nicer than he thinks | Polly Toynbee
When these welfare changes come into force, their savage effect will be seen – and then the public mood will turn Ask who deserves support from the state
Letters: Morality and the welfare reform bill
Doubtless, the permanently disabled and those dying of cancer will be reassured to learn that “Many Liberal Democrats have been uncomfortable voting with the government, but feel forced to do so if they are to abide by their coalition commitment to bring the deficit under control” ( Coalition’s welfare reform plan hit by £1.6 bn Lords defeat , 12 January). Some of us were under the misguided impression that the “only obeying orders” defence, now being used by Liberal Democrat MPs and most Liberal Democrat peers, was ruled out at the Nuremberg trials.
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Letters: Morality and the welfare reform bill
Learning disability units found lacking in wake of Winterbourne View scandal
Four of first five services inspected after the Winterbourne View abuse scandal don’t meet essential standards, commission finds Four of the first five services for people with learning disabilities that were subject to snap inspections in the wake of the Winterbourne View scandal have failed to meet essential standards of care and safety.
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Learning disability units found lacking in wake of Winterbourne View scandal
Disabled people on benefits shouldn’t have to fear being active | Lucy Glennon
Asking people to report those they believe to be claiming DLA fraudulantly discourages disabled people from having fun This week, a 51-year-old woman from Cardiff was sent to jail for 10 weeks for claiming nearly £20,000 in benefits after she was filmed going down a water slide while on holiday. Further footage of her walking unaided and descending rocky steps was also used as evidence against her.
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Disabled people on benefits shouldn’t have to fear being active | Lucy Glennon
