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,...
[UK] Disabled people could be moved to care homes to save council money (www.itv.com)
Disabled people in Bristol could be forced to live in care homes if it is cheaper than providing support for them in their own homes....
[UK] ‘Overwhelmed’ claimant admits chemical weapon charge after jobcentre suicide attempt (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
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Alan Benson: Tributes from ‘heartbroken’ colleagues to ‘astounding campaigner’ (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
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Homeless for the holidays in desperate need of help
Hi, my name is Samantha me and my mother Sharon are being evicted from our apartment of 21 years, we have a hole in our ceiling leaking water from the toilet onto our kitchen table , coffin flies coming up our drain from a sewage backup in the basement the landlord refused to clean up, the flies get into all of our food . We...
Parliamentary meeting demands end to segregation and abuse of young disabled people [CW: description of abuse] (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
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Protesters say ‘obscene’ profits from ‘inhuman’ asylum housing conditions must end (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
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Disabled people ‘must rediscover appetite for fighting oppression’. New book: Disability Praxis (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
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Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights (leftfootforward.org)
'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...
New laws allowing the Department for Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of benefit claimants are predicted to lead to 7,400 extra prosecutions for fraud each year – resulting in 250 custodial sentences. (www.publictechnology.net)
Impact assessment forecasts that prosecutions will rocket, but claims staff will take ‘account of circumstances and vulnerabilities’ of benefit recipients and ‘no automatic decisions will be made on data alone’...
[UK] Join DPAC & allies and tell the government that they can Stick their fucking duty up their arse! (dpac.uk.net)
Laura Trott’s recent comments about the conservative party’s latest welfare plans have are just downright bloody insulting....
Jeremy *unt warns benefits coasters will lose free prescriptions if they refuse jobs (www.independent.co.uk)
Jeremy Hunt has warned those who “coast” on benefits will lose handouts if they refuse to take a job as part of a new crackdown....
Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It’s time we listened. (www.bigissue.com)
Dr China Mills shares her experiences of pulling together decades of evidence of deaths, protests and failures in the disability benefits system for a new timeline which holds the government to account...
Purple Tuesday faces fresh ‘purple-washing’ claims after multiple access fails (www.disabilitynewsservice.com)
A series of embarrassing online access fails has again left a high-profile campaign facing accusations that it allows businesses to parade their supposed commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, while failing to put those promises into practice....
[UK] DWP considers powers of arrest, seizure and collecting information on where claimants spend money (www.benefitsandwork.co.uk)
The DWP have published the results of a survey on the public’s attitudes to a worrying list of new powers it is considering acquiring, allegedly in order to combat fraud, error and debt in the benefits system....
[UK] Protest against DWP proposals to tighten the WCA – 12 pm Monday 30 October (dpac.uk.net)
Time: 12pm noon...
Wheelchair-Using Teachers Give the Next Generation a More Accurate View of Disability (newmobility.com)
Wheelchair-using teachers talk about the challenges and rewards of the profession.
Advocates reflect on their week on Capitol Hill for #ROCH23 (unitedspinal.org)
United Spinal members spent the week at the Capitol advocating for disability rights.
Family questions accessibility protocol for disabled travelers after son was turned away from flight (www.wkbw.com)
Family questions accessibility protocol for disabled travelers after son was turned away from flight
Meet the actors with disabilities starring in a film not about disability (www.nbclosangeles.com)
California Live’s Danielle Nottingham sits down with actors Tobias Forrest & John Lawson to talk about their new movie “Daruma” and how they want to help changing the casting process.
Unpaid carers: 'I had to choose to care for my husband or my sister' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Miriam Murray says greater support is needed for unpaid carers in Northern Ireland.
Woman who couldn't read at 16 to graduate with degree (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chloe McRoberts will graduate with first class honours 10 years after she left school with no qualifications.
Genetic marker discovered for the severity of multiple sclerosis (www.newscientist.com)
Analysis of data from more than 22,000 people with multiple sclerosis helped researchers identify a genetic variant that is associated with the severity of the disease
