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"The report’s recommendations are an important first step in ensuring that we have a disability benefits system that supports, rather than damages, people affected by mental illness"

Rethink Mental Illness response to disability benefits benefit assessments report

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"Our strategy on the future of work, health and disability brings together employers, the welfare system and health services"

Our ten-year plan to stop disabled people missing out on work

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"The omission is "potentially illegal" in light of the government's international obligations to protect disabled people"

Warning over new exclusion threat for disabled people

Leading charity warns government is in danger of excluding disabled people from key area of economic policy

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"This is a battle that disabled people can't fight alone"

I’m Broken, Britain: This is a battle for survival

An anonymous writer on his battle with the DWP

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"LITRG has told a wide-ranging consultation that certain tax rules and HMRC practice work against the Government’s commitment to halve the disability employment gap"

HMRC urged to do more to help disabled people in work

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"The Government will restrict the availability of zero-rate VAT for the purchase of adapted motor vehicles for eligible disabled users, to one car every three years."

Concern at new restrictions on VAT relief for disabled people buying cars

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"The Human Rights group Liberty have today written to the council urging them to drop the plans saying they would discriminate against disabled people"

Council plans ban of ‘annoying’ public speakers and mobility scooters

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"The Supreme Court found in favour of two families who claimed the bedroom is discriminatory"

Government defeated at the Supreme Court over bedroom tax

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I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, opened to very strong reviews but was branded unrealistic by ministers.

I’m Broken, Britain: I’m Daniel Blake

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"It's time we collectively reinvent the way we deal with disabilities and the workplace"

I’m Broken, Britain: Reinventing welfare for the disabled

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"It is commonplace for disabled people now to be offered incontinence pads when they are not incontinent as a replacement for support to use the toilet"

The closure of the Independent Living Fund has been disastrous for disabled people

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"I was informed that my CV, no matter how good it looked, didn't actually count for anything"

I’m Broken, Britain: An open letter from an anonymous benefit recipient

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There are concerns that mandatory reconsiderations add "confusion, obstruction and complexity to the appeals processes"

‘Confusion, obstruction and complexity’: How the DWP is denying vulnerable people justice

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WoW campaigner with Labour MP John McDonnell

Campaigners call for a full assessment of the impact of cuts on disabled people

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Scope has called for disabled people to be taken off the Work Programme

Comment: The Work Programme is not working for disabled people

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Discrimination and prejudice blighting the lives of disabled teachers

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The Little Monster Bash 2015

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Suffolk parents raise money to help their son walk just like his twin brother

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Families of seriously ill and disabled children need our help

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