Category - welfare reforms

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14 Dec 2011

Important petition against disability and welfare cuts

Attacks on benefits and services are nothing new, but the situation has now become a crisis, as the latest vote in the House of Lords (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/15900) illustrates. But now is not the time to give up.
14 Dec 2011

Lords vote to slash benefits for disabled children

An amendment to protect the benefits of disabled children once Universal Credit is introduced has been defeated in the House of Lords.
1 May 2011

Betraying disabled people and welfare
31 Jan 2011

Government short-sighted on disability
27 Apr 2010

Stop punishing sick and disabled welfare claimants

The ‘get tough’ approach to sick and disabled welfare claimants promoted by the big party players in the run up to this General Election, and in recent media rhetoric, is not just morally cheap, says Savi Hensman. It is reflective of a profoundly inadequate policy approach which ends up scapegoating those we should be supporting most.
22 Jul 2008

Benefit reforms attack the poorest and most vulnerable says church group

Far-reaching proposals to force the long-term unemployed to work for their benefits were condemned yesterday by a church agency. Church Action on Poverty expressed concern that new welfare reforms would increase exclusion