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:
Disabled and older transport users took action on Thursday against Transport for London's threats to cut 950 members of staff from London Underground.
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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
January 2014
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".
