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The welfare reform bill will incentivise people: to turn on David Cameron | Polly Toynbee
David Cameron’s cuts have barely got going yet. That’s the frightening truth about austerity While Tory and Lib Dem MPs were contemptuously rejecting all seven Lords amendments to the welfare reform bill on Wednesday, I was at a credit union in London’s East End, listening to low earners and unemployed people struggling to save small sums to avoid loan sharks. Admirable, but little protection from a tidal wave of cuts heading their way
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The welfare reform bill will incentivise people: to turn on David Cameron | Polly Toynbee
The work capability assessment should help, not hound people back into work | Tom Greatrex
Failure to address the flaws of the Atos assessment has hurt the needy, and undermined the principle of helping people work In the 21 months since I was elected an MP, one issue is consistently raised by constituents: employment and support allowance (ESA) and the work capability assessment (WCA) that underpins eligibility for it. The principle of assessing those claiming sickness benefit is one with which I agree. As do, surprisingly, many of the people who have contacted me about problems with WCA .
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Welfare reform bill – benefit cap Commons live debate
After seven defeats in the Lords, the government’s controversial welfare reform proposals return to the Commons for further discussion 12.15pm: Some excellent comments coming in below the line . My colleague Laura Oliver asked for your thoughts on the government’s proposed concessions. Wishface responds : • Families affected by the £26,000 welfare cap will be given at least nine months “grace period” to adapt to the loss of benefits, by fiinding a job or moving house
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Welfare reform bill – benefit cap Commons live debate
Letters: The benefits of a civilised society
Today the welfare reform bill is expected to return to the Commons ( Report , 30 January). Under government plans, 670,000 households – two-thirds containing a disabled family member – would lose an average of £670 a year because they are deemed to have one or more additional bedrooms. Separated parents or grandparents who use their extra bedroom to share the care of their children or grandchildren; families in which two same-sex teenage children have their own bedroom for privacy and study; foster parents with rooms occupied by foster children – many, despite having nowhere else to move to, will see their incomes cut if the bill passes unamended.
Wheelchair users block Oxford Circus to protest at disability cuts
‘We’re not scroungers and fakers’ say wheelchair protesters Disability activists blocked one of central London’s busiest road junctions on Saturday with a line of wheelchair users chained together in the first of a series of promised direct action protests against government welfare cuts. The demonstration, which brought much of Oxford Circus to a standstill for more than two hours, was the product of an alliance between disabled groups and UK Uncut, which came to prominence by staging similar direct actions against corporations accused of avoiding tax
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Welfare reform: Lib Dems urge Nick Clegg to back Lords amendments
Letter from more than 50 former Lib Dem parliamentary candidates urges party leader to respect party policy on benefits Nick Clegg is coming under unprecedented private pressure from his own party to back a string of Lords amendments designed to protect children and those with disabilities from the impact of the government’s welfare reforms. A letter from more than 50 former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates in the 2010 election has been sent to Clegg urging him to respect party policy and vote to allow disabled people to retain employment support allowance for at least two years without being means tested. The letter, passed to the Guardian, warns more than 800,000 people with disabilities will be hit by the reforms, and expresses deep concern that the employment minister, Chris Grayling, has said the government defeats in the Lords will be overturned.
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