Tories’ evil sanction regime in a horrific nutshell
The Tories have been censured by the UN for their vile abuse of disabled people and benefit claimants – not a fact that you will see much mentioned in the […]
Tag Archives: DWP
Support Grahame Morris MP’s #WASPI petition
The excellent Labour MP Grahame Morris has been a steadfast advocate for ‘WASPI’ women – the women penalised by ill-conceived and callous government changes to pension laws, costing them up […]
Landmark benefits judgment almost nobody’s talking about
As the Daily Mirror announced yesterday, the ‘Upper Tribunal’ (UT) – the body that rules on the most serious benefits disputes – ruled against the government’s treatment of benefits claimants […]
Govt replaces unemployment mortgage-interest benefit with loans
One of numerous things the Tories are doing that have received little media attention is a hard kick aimed at mortgage-payers who lose their job. Up to this month, people […]
WRAG/sanctions: the definitive answer (as much as there is one)
As promised last night, the SKWAWKBOX has been looking further into conflicting reports from DWP insiders concerning the WRAG (work-related activity group) category into which the government, more or less […]
Important: WRAG/sanction – don’t panic yet
Earlier today the SKWAWKBOX published an article about the application of the Universal Credit (UC) ‘claimant commitment’ to disabled people. That article was based on information from a recent DWP […]
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