http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/disability/personal-independence-payment/the-assessment-criteria/social-security-personal-independence/
pip consulation different options. I have also made a word version. tweet me @allbigideas if you need that.
radio n tv links
http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/welfare-reform-bill-todays-media-links/
thursday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/what-next-sparticus-welfare-campaign?newsfeed=true Hundreds of people have asked me "So, what next for Spartacus?", the welfare campaign named after the report I co-authored with dozens of other disability ...
Friday
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16116
are continuing to protest strongly over the coalition's controversial Welfare Reform Bill, following the publication of the critical Spartacus Report. ...
http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/columnists/adam-and-hannah-off-air/rainbow_warrior_1_3429166 NEW report called Responsible Reform has been drawn up based on ... The document (which has been dubbed Spartacus*) sharply criticises the planned .
http://kerrymccarthy.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/scroungers-fight-back/
Sue Marsh and others have done an excellent job campaigning on disability issues, with their Spartacus report and efforts to persuade the Lords to amend the Welfare Reform Bill. They’ve used social media to do this very effectively.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16656818#TWEET65431
Iain Duncan Smith has told the BBC a planned benefits cap is not "about punishing people", and has said people are "not suffering" under his reforms
Wednesday
http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/16151452
Tanni GT's ammendment thrown out of HoL
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4068678/1billion-a-year-benefits-waste.html 800m in over payments for benefits (bad article)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/17/welfare-reform-bill-amendment-blocked?newsfeed=true The government fought off a fresh challenge to its controversial welfare reform bill on Tuesday night, when peers rejected a proposal to delay the full introduction of slashed new disability payments after ministers offered concessions
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-cameron-is-the-david-brent-of-welfare-reform-6291013.html The only freedom the Government has in mind, in seeking to have this benefit reduced or removed by the decision of private firm employees under huge pressure to find reasons to do so, is the freedom from caring adequately for its most vulnerable.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gpsKwDvySVWj9N9JUwwP79AR8qHQ?docId=N1028251326788847266A
The coalition has avoided fresh embarrassment over its plans for a new disability allowance after making concessions.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16099
By staff writers Conservatives leaned heavily on Liberal Democrat support in the Lords last night, avoiding another humiliating Welfare Reform Bill report stage defeat by only 16 votes. The rejection of a proposal to delay the full introduction of new
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=27267
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-24028559-backing-tories-on-welfare-will-see-disabled-sleep-in-open.do
A senior Liberal Democrat MP today attacked leaders of his party for backing welfare reforms which he says will see "the weak and disabled bed down at night under railway bridges". Andrew George hit out at the "dinner party tendency in our ranks" who ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16596799
All of this was largely uncontentious in years of plenty, but austerity has brought with it demands that the welfare state be cut back. DLA costs billions and the Treasury is committed to finding an alternative that will see the rising bill reduced by ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lords-rebellion-fails-to-block-reform-of-disability-benefits-6291148.html
Disability campaigners were dismayed yesterday as the Government narrowly won ... an attempted amendment to its reforms of the Disability Living Allowance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/18/conservative-party-attacks-disabled-people?newsfeed=true
Having been a member of the Conservative party since 1992 and a councillor from 2006, I decided to relinquish both of those positions in 2011. A big decision but one that I decided to make because of the government's endless attacks on disabled people ...
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/01/the-governments-replacement-for-dla-is-not-fit-for-purpose/
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/01/the-governments-replacement-for-dla-is-not-fit-for-purpose/
Thursday 12 January's vote against the welfare reform bill was a key victory for disabled people, including those with Parkinson's. In powerful speeches, peer after peer objected to the arbitrary one year time limit that was proposed for means testing .
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=18554
LA is in need of urgent reform so that it can give people the support they need. Under PIP a greater proportion of people will be eligible for the higher rate of help than is the case under DLA. "People understand that the welfare state needs to ...
http://www.hi-mag.com/health-insurance/product-area/income-protection/article389116.ece The government's plans to reform Disability Living Allowance face a hurdle in the House of Lords today when a group of cross-benchers, including Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, will demand changes to the
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16613900
She said some people were "terrified" about the proposals, and claimed up to 500000 people could lose out. Iain Duncan Smith said the reform was intended to offer a "sustainable" allowance that would go to the right people, with some losers and some
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16099
ackers of the Spartacus Report, which exposed the deeply flawed official consultation on the Disability Living Allowance, vowed to keep on campaigning. Sue Marsh, co-author of the headlining 'Responsible Reform' report, commented: "Lord Freud had t
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16610020
pmqs as it happened.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/816/why_britain_is_f_
.. single mother of three who arrived in the UK four years ago can now claim £2600 per month in Housing Benefit to go on top of the £25547.60 per year she already gets in tax credits, child benefits, disability living allowance and carer's allowance. ...
http://www.rethink.org/about_mental_illness/personal_stories_blogs_forum/blogs/jane_harris/dla_and_the_question.html
What next for DLA?
http://www.papworth.org.uk/news-detail.php?aid=282
papworth trusts response to last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16613900
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/01/the-governments-replacement-for-dla-is-not-fit-for-purpose/ Fit for purpose?
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16095
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One, ahead of the House of Lords Welfare Reform Bill (WRB) debate today, Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Maria Miller sought to sound reassuring and reasonable.
http://carerwatch.com/reform/?p=492 In the Aftermath our voices will not be silenced
http://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/article.jsp?id=5201 MS trusts response..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16611064 ain Duncan Smith has rejected suggestions that thousands of cancer patients could lose nearly £100 a week due to coalition welfare changes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16618955 UPDATE: The government, according to strong rumour, is about to make defeats a little less likely, by appointing 60 new peers - 40 Conservatives, 15 Liberal Democrats and five Labour. And no crossbenchers.
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/701/13525/18-01-2012/welfare-reform-bill-lords-compromise-is-no-victory disabled activist On 11 January, the House of Lords rejected the Con-Dem coalition government's proposal in its misnamed welfare reform bill to limit the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) that is contribution-based for disabled and sick claimants to one year.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11976/ Let’s have a proper debate about the welfare state
TUESDAY
this one im putting here becuase its an essential read for all spartcii
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/17/disability-spartacus-welfare-cuts-campaign-viral?CMP=twt_fd
All links relating to the amendment here:
http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/9474781.Baroness_to_challenge_new_disability_benefit/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16588521
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16588953
(video)
http://fullfact.org/factcheck/disability_living_allowance_benefit_20_years-3240
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221449.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/296215/Benefit-reform-fears-for-disabled
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gpsKwDvySVWj9N9JUwwP79AR8qHQ?docId=N1028251326788847266A
(600million 'overpayment' source)
http://fullfact.org/blog/DLA_benefit_claims_without_checks-3112
and another article about the claim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/jan/17/disibility-living-allowance-overpayment?CMP=twt_gu
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/neilobrien1/100130331/reforming-disability-living-allowance-is-the-right-thing-to-do/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2012/jan/17/disability-living-allowance-video-diaries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/17/society-daily-email?newsfeed=true
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16088
(comes with a health warning this one, its Lord Freud)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/welfare-reforms-sustainable-system?commentpage=1#end-of-comments
http://www.healthinsurance.co.uk/news/2012/jan/pressure-on-govt-increases-over-planned-benefit-changes.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/17/dla-reform-welfare-lords_n_1209847.html
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16087
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/blog/2012/jan/17/disability-welfare#block-3
http://lartsocial.org/DLAreform
http://mark-mi-words.blogspot.com/2012/01/personal-story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2087784/Welfare-Reform-Bill-Where-national-conscience.html
http://mark-mi-words.blogspot.com/2012/01/personal-story.html
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/01/charities-call-for-welfare-reform-bill-pause/
http://sewtired.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/wrb/
http://audioboo.fm/boos/626921-welfare-reform-rushed-through
live blog on disability reform http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16092
Real PIP losers revealed, just before Lords vote: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16093
Will the government take away money from disabled people on a hunch? http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/01/will-the-government-take-away-money-from-disabled-people-on-a-hunch/
http://boggenstrovia.blogspot.com/http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16095
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2012/01/stop-and-think-about-disability-benefit-cuts-say-charities/
http://www.channel4.com/news/campaigners-urge-pause-on-disability-benefits-reform
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Saturday
Bendygirls radio interview transcribed
http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/articles/kaliya-franklin-interview
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2086770/The-Lords-decent-politicians-left.html#ixzz1jThlaocd
http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/ministers-getting-ahead-of-themselves/
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2012/01/not-scroungers-any-more.html
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-data-protection-for-sick-and.html
http://www.benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/2012/01/spartacusreport-inspires-sermon.html
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201212/cmhansrd/cm120110/text/120110w0008.htm#12011114000010
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Appeal-MPs-vote-cuts/story-14413648-detail/story.html
Warning, against us, please comment and get involved if you can
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/15/duck-reform-disabled-benefits-disability?CMP=twt_gu
why we need to defend DLA
http://jennymorrisnet.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-we-need-to-defend-disability-living.html
Monday
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16080
In reference to:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087165/Disability-benefit-TREBLES-20-years-3-5m-claiming-2015-warn-ministers.html?ito=feeds-newsxml and http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4063358/Disability-benefit-claims-treble.html#comment-rig
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/disability-reform-lords-defeat-amateur?newsfeed=true
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16079
http://anitassessment.weebly.com/spartacus-action.html
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/districtnews/districtatog/9473418.Disability_aid_cuts____unfair____to_the_sick/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16573348
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/blog/2012/jan/16/welfare-reform-bill-cuts-to-disability-benefits?newsfeed=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/davehillblog/2012/jan/16/london-housing-benefit-caps-disability
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/16/welfare-reform-pip-three-months-qualifying_n_1208417.html
http://notsobigsociety.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/from-clicktivism-to-activism/
http://www.papworth.org.uk/news-detail.php?aid=279
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2012/01/lord-freuds-letter-to-peers-re.html
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-news/1509-dwp-tries-to-discredit-spartacus-report
http://www.prlog.org/11773513-spartacus-report-gains-public-support.html
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/guest-post-last-chance-to-save-disability-living-allowance#.TxSDvXwRN-4.twitter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/16/welfare-reform-bill-lords-rebellion?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/16/young-cancer-patients-will-be-pushed-into-poverty-by-government-welfare-cuts-charity-warns-115875-23701297/
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16083
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/16/coalition-cuts-disability-benefits?newsfeed=true
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