Opinion: Confessions of a manic depressive #timetotalk
After hearing/reading a lot of negative things about people with mental health issues recently first I got angry, then I got writing. This is what I came up with:
11 Feb 2014
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Disabled passengers say no to Tube staff cuts
Disabled and older transport users took action on Thursday against Transport for London's threats to cut 950 members of staff from London Underground.
11 Feb 2014
If you are affected by disability, what do you want to tell the world?
Create a card PEOPLE My friends, family, neighbours andsupport workers
10 Feb 2014
Bedroom tax will waste £234MILLION of taxpayers' money if disabled tenants forced to move house
The figure is nearly HALF the £500million the Government hoped to save this year with the hated rules - ministers estimate around 35,000 claimants will be affected
10 Feb 2014
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5 Feb 2014
Labour MP Slams ‘Unacceptable’ Capita Disability Benefit Assessments
Labour MP, Peter Hain, has called on disability benefit assessment firm Capita and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to "urgently reform" its "punitive" assessment process, which is "causing no end of misery" to sick and disabled claimants, before it descends into similar "problems experienced with ATOS and the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments".
30 Jan 2014