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UK Uncut joins fight against welfare reform bill
Tax avoidance group forges alliance with disability campaigners in marked strategic shift to stage day of mass civil disobedience The direct action group UK Uncut has joined disability activists to plan civil disobedience against the welfare reform bill in London this weekend, which they say will bring chaos to the centre of the capital. Saturday’s action, billed as “hugely daring and disruptive” , is a shift for UK Uncut from previous action against alleged corporate tax avoiders, such as occupying stores run by Vodafone and the Arcadia retail group. It is forming alliances with campaigners against specific spending cuts it views as being, in part, the direct consequence of reduced tax receipts
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Welfare reform bill: disability benefit cuts – Lords live discussion
Lords to debate controversial cuts to disability living allowance payments (DLA) 10.46am: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson , the former paralympian, is leading the charge in the Lords to mitigate proposals to replace DLA with Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Lady Grey-Thompson is calling for a trial of the new PIP assessment scheme before it is introduced. She told the Guardian , it “made sense” to pilot the scheme before it went ahead
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Elderly people face rising cost of council services
Figures show older people pay up to £7,000 a year for home care as the government is accused of underfunding services The social care system has been branded “not fit for purpose” after figures revealed elderly people are paying up to £7,000 a year for home care services.
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The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times | Ian Birrell
There is a climate of hostility towards people for whom life is already difficult and it is being fostered by politicians and journalists Peter Greener endured a barrage of hate from his neighbour. Sometimes, it was eggs thrown at his house, stones thrown at his windows or paint thrown at his fence; more often, it was words hurled in his face: spastic, cripple, scum, scrounger. These assaults went on for months, leaving the former Nissan car-sprayer in floods of tears, feeling suicidal and on antidepressants
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Privatising care will inevitably lead to lower standards
Outsourcing local authority care to the market will only ever result in profits being put before people, says Edward Lawrence The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report last month found that council-funded home care provided to elderly people was, in some cases, in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Will I still get Personal Independence Payments if G4S can’t talk to me?
Liz Ball is a deafblind wheelchair user but when G4S invited her to take part in a trial interview they failed to arrange an interpreter When I was asked to take part in the testing of the first draft of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment, I was very uneasy about it. While I didn’t want to be seen as condoning it; I chose to take part to prove to what extent the assessments pose difficulties for other deafblind people
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