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
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".
Because of his own personal experience of caring for a disabled child, David Cameron has always promised to give the issue special attention. During election campaigning in 2010 David Cameron spoke to Jonathan Bartley and his disabled son Samuel Photo: PA 2:22PM GMT 20 Jan 2011