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[UK] Emergency Social Security Campaigns Meeting – THIS Sunday (dpac.uk.net)

Emergency Social Security Campaigns Meeting...

Over £23bn worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year, report finds (morningstaronline.co.uk)

NEW analysis has found that over £23 billion worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year....

Sunak accused of launching ‘full-on assault on disabled people’ (www.theguardian.com)

PM criticised for personal independence payment review amid ‘spiralling’ disability welfare bill...

DWP warns carers they could face greater penalties if they appeal against fines (www.theguardian.com)

Officials at Department for Work and Pensions accused of ‘threatening and cruel’ tactics over repayment orders...

Introducing: The Week In Ableist Bullsh*t (www.thecanary.co)

Sick of the press and govt constantly talking crap about disabled people? So is journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey......

Thousands of disabled people ‘will get £2,800 a year less under universal credit’ (www.theguardian.com)

Single people with long-term disability that stops them working will be much poorer after rollout, Resolution Foundation says...

Leak reveals Tory plan to cut cold weather cash for disabled people (www.theguardian.com)

Hundreds of thousands could lose out in England and Wales under disability benefit reforms after general election...

World’s oldest living conjoined twins die in Pennsylvania, aged 62 (www.theguardian.com)

Lori and George Schappell were joined at the skull with separate bodies and lived on their own since the age of 24...

I fought the law... and the law lost: disabled man arrested for blocking parliament wins case (www.thecanary.co)

Neil Goodwin was charged over his protest outside parliament in 2023. However, a judge saw it for nonsense - and here, Neil tells all....

Forced treatments, sectionings, deaths, assisted suicides: the reality of ME/CFS in the UK in just three months of 2024 (www.thecanary.co)

We're in the middle of a plague...

The likes of the BBC, Guardian, and Daily Mail are set to have their own disinformation used against them [click through to listen to the article] (www.thecanary.co)

A campaign group will be targeting UK media outlets during global ME Awareness Day – calling out what it calls the corporate media’s systemic “mis-and-disinformation” relating to this chronic illness....

A disabled man is being PROSECUTED for blocking parliament with his MOBILITY SCOOTER (www.thecanary.co)

Disabled activist Neil Goodwin was arrested under the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act outside parliament...

DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants (www.bigissue.com)

The job postings come as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) continues its drive to crack down on benefit fraud....

You Say Goodbye, We Say Hell-No! (dpac.uk.net)

A recent advert by the Alzheimer’s Society has caused significant backlash from both individuals living with dementia, those that love them and provide unpaid care, and professionals in the field of neurological support needs....

Don't let TV soaps make Covid reality a casualty (westcountryvoices.co.uk)

A recent episode of the hospital drama Casualty misrepresented the very serious risks that Covid still poses. Jane Stevenson wrote to the BBC to explain just how wrong they’d got it....

Disabled people's exclusion from indoor spaces is a civil rights violation, not an annoyance (www.thegauntlet.news)

NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life...

Disability Day of Mourning – Remembering the Disabled Murdered by Caregivers (disability-memorial.org)

Every year on March 1st, the disability community comes together to remember the victims of filicide – people with disabilities killed by their family members. Vigils are held on the Day of Mourning in cities around the world....

[UK] DPAC returns to the streets for ‘active resistance’ to DWP cuts (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024...

[UK] #NoMoreBenefitDeaths National Day of Action Monday 4th March 2024 (dpac.uk.net)

#NoMoreBenefitDeaths...

Council drops plan to 'force' disabled people into care homes (www.bristolpost.co.uk)

Disabled people who faced the prospect of being forced to move into care homes if the cost of supporting them at home was considered ‘too expensive’ are claiming a huge victory, after Bristol City Council told them it was dropping the proposal....

Labour’s election ‘campaigning bible’ ignores disabled people… and the care crisis (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)

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Why Dragon's Den's latest episode was so damaging (www.digitalspy.com)

It's caused backlash among the chronic illness community....

“Museum of Austerity” tells story of those killed due to punitive UK benefits system (www.wsws.org)

Museum of Austerity, recently displayed at the HOME arts centre in Manchester, UK, brings to life the terrible plight of 10 of the disabled victims of a brutal and inhumane benefits system who were failed and left to die....

Post Office Horizon software originally aimed at claimants (www.benefitsandwork.co.uk)

The Horizon software at the centre of the current Post Office scandal was originally designed to save money and reduce fraud in connection with benefits and pension payments. Even though the Benefits Agency dropped the software, there are disturbing parallels between the way sub-postmasters were, and claimants still are,...