campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[8115]

Do you mean they are predicting it will be in the budget?

I think it's a mixture of what people fear and also possibly the government softening us up with dire leaks, so that we roll over and shrug at anything less than armageddon. That's what I'm hoping.

 

[superfly101]

The Low Commission Report http://www.lowcommission.org.uk/News/Advice-and-Health

http://www.lowcommission.org.uk/dyn/1435582011755/ASA-report_Web.pdf

A key strand of our work has been to look at the relationship between advice needs and services, and health. The most forward looking advice services have always developed good relationships with local health service providers in both primary (GP) and secondary (Hospital) care - CAB outreaches in GP surgery centres, for example, have been a common and successful model. But the linkage between social welfare advice improving health outcomes within the context of the "social determinants" (reference - the Marmot Report) of ill-health has not been widely mainstreamed amongst policy makers and commissioners.

We are therefore publishing a research review which we have worked on and commissioned jointly with the Advice Services Alliance, and guided by a group of experts from health and advice charities chaired by Amanda Finlay. The research was undertaken by Consilium and the foreword provided by Michael Marmot who is joining Lord Low on Monday June 29th to launch the report in Parliament.

 

[treelover]

Ministers are also understood to be considering changes to the support group category of the Employment and Support Allowance, with a possible announcement in the 8 July Budget.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33347511

This was in the pre-budget leaks to the BBC, it will probably come out in the Autumn, maybe Tory Conference, sickening

 

[zxspectrum]

This was in the pre-budget leaks to the BBC, it will probably come out in the Autumn, maybe Tory Conference, sickening

I've thought about emailing my mp over this issue, buy to be honest I really don't think he'll change his mind, being a Tory. The response will be the usual hand wringing and superficial polite sympathy.

 

[Greebo]

I've thought about emailing my mp over this issue, buy to be honest I really don't think he'll change his mind, being a Tory. <snip>

Email (and preferably snailmail too) him anyway. Yes, you can expect platitudes or no reply at all, but as least you can make him aware that you don't agree with what's going on.

 

[rhod]

Please share and end this man's poverty and torment NOW!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tobias-Ellwood-Austerity-Relief-Fund/886733984729146

 

[Treacle Toes]

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/...nefits-cap-for-what-it-is-economic-cleansing/

 

[Treacle Toes]

Housing: Why Earning £6.50 an Hour isn’t an Option in London
Posted on Jul 22nd, 2015 in Street News // Comments »
Tags: Housing London, London, Minimum Wage, Rent, UK Housing

You’ll struggle to get a roof over your head on the minimum wage. Here is what you really need to earn to be able to afford a one-bed rental in the CapitalWe’ve mapped the real minimum hourly wage needed to be able to get a one-bed rental in all 120 London postcodes. The results are sobering – there is only one postcode where a minimum wage earner, working full time on £6.50 an hour, can afford a place of their own: Abbey Wood, a South East London suburb in Zone 4.



http://streetskitchen.co.uk/?p=2580

 

[treelover]

8 programmes last week on TV, not including repeats.

including, not making this up, 'Dogs on the dole', so this is what our highly educated workforce is doing.

 

[treelover]

Some great new images appearing.

 

[treelover]

Merseyside MP renews pressure to reveal death toll after “fit for work” tests

http://linkis.com/voxpoliticalonline.com/OPjd2

Liverpool MP Marie Rimmer has created an early day motion to get the DWP/Govt to reveal the figures, along with the petition, this will put real pressure on the Govt

but this is no ordinary govt and no ordinary times, people are dying and most of the country is unaware.

 

[treelover]

One in six jobseekers have allowance stopped by DWP each year
Guardian research contradicts government claims that only a small minority of jobseekers have been affected by increasingly severe welfare policies

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/05/jobseekers-dole-guardian-research-government-welfare

Shocking, should be number one priority for Corbyn campaign, etc.

 

[8115]

Good program on the iplayer called "Disabled in an instant" that looks at this issue sideways, but meeting young people who've been disabled and looking at some of the problems they have with the system. One thing that shows up is where you cut essential services, the cost is just paid by another service, such as people staying in hospital longer. Good program.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b064jj14/disabled-in-an-instant#group=p02q33dg

 

[stethoscope]

Cunts

DWP admits making up quotes by 'benefit claimants' saying sanctions helped them
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ts-saying-sanctions-helped-them-10460351.html

 

[StoneRoad]

But, sadly, quite typical of the vermin ...

 

[Bakunin]

Cunts

DWP admits making up quotes by 'benefit claimants' saying sanctions helped them
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ts-saying-sanctions-helped-them-10460351.html

#fakeDWPstories is trending nicely on Twitter today. I've been having big fun with it.

 

[teqniq]

DWP to quietly publish benefited-related death stats before Bank Holiday weekend

 

[Bakunin]

I don't think this Daily Mirror columnist likes IDS very much:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-dont-count-youre-iain-6311127

 

[ViolentPanda]

I don't think this Daily Mirror columnist likes IDS very much:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-dont-count-youre-iain-6311127

And it's all of it "fair comment" - conclusions one could naturally reach after reading his policies and their effects.
You can bet he's already had his Civil Servants write to The Mirror demanding an apology for the calumny.

 

[Greebo]

Essential information for ESA claims, assessments and appeals (as spotted by another urbanite who isn't currently very active here but thought we'd find it useful)

https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/1560/

 

[friendofdorothy]

Essential information for ESA claims, assessments and appeals (as spotted by another urbanite who isn't currently very active here but thought we'd find it useful)

https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/1560/

that is a really useful link, very clear and concise.
I like the image they use

 

[treelover]

Publish the statistics showing how many people have died after their benefits were stopped

Victory!

maggie Zolobajluk
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
31 Aug 2015 — We did it - the stats were published and The DWP withdrew its appeal against The Information Commissioners Office

Thank you once again and I hope you can support our new petition

HM Courts and Tribunal Service - Publish stats showing how many people have died after their benefits stopped

Looks like Change .org can work sometimes, 250,000 people signed the petition(including Urbs) Maggie was excellent and persistent as well.

 

[treelover]

With the growth in support of the refugee crisis, its now plain that media coverage played a very important part in raising public awareness and spurring people on 'to do something', this thread is now many years old but looking at the UK, apart from DPAC and some activities with Unite Community and plenty of petitions, not that much has been done. The People's Assembly has seen another bandwagon and has called for a day of action for refugees, but in its history it has never done anything about the loss of life from sanctions, benefit refusals, etc, which is now well documented. Such high profile events do raise awareness, etc, so one has to ask why?, we know Rees and German have a poor record on poverty issues since their days in the SWP,much preferring identity and anti-imperialism politics, but this is also a crisis, something must be done.

 

[Pickman's model]

With the growth in support of the refugee crisis,

let me just stop you there, as no one is actually supporting the refugee crisis: no one thinks it is a good thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

this is also a crisis, something must be done.

oh dear.

 

[NoXion]

let me just stop you there, as no one is actually supporting the refugee crisis: no one thinks it is a good thing.

I'm pretty sure treelover is talking about growing public support for refugees rather than the crisis itself. But I see that you get some kind of fulfilment from antagonistically nitpicking his posts, so who am I to spoil the sport of others?

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm pretty sure treelover is talking about growing public support for refugees rather than the crisis itself. But I see that you get some kind of fulfilment from antagonistically nitpicking his posts, so who am I to spoil the sport of others?

someone who likes making evidence-free assumptions from the looks of things. but if that's what rocks your boat, carry on say i.

 

[NoXion]

someone who likes making evidence-free assumptions from the looks of things. but if that's what rocks your boat, carry on say i.

So go on then, do you really think that treelover was talking about a growth in support for the crisis itself?

 

[Pickman's model]

So go on then, do you really think that treelover was talking about a growth in support for the crisis itself?

tbh it is difficult to tell what treelover means. consider the bit after:

its now plain that media coverage played a very important part in raising public awareness and spurring people on 'to do something',

the media coverage has for a long time not spurred people on to "do something". for months on end we've been told about horrendous deaths, of far more than two children, without the moral imperative which seems to have come from the sad deaths of the two brothers and their mother. the media has in fact largely fed us on stories of hordes of immigrants coming to swamp us, to use cameron's charming term. so imo the most that can be said for treelover is his meaning is indeterminate, as for months on end the stories have played into the hands of ukip, the tories and other right-wing elements. what he says is 'growth in support of the refugee crisis'. what he means ... well, you're no more certain than i.

however, the evidence free assumption i was referring to was my getting some kind of fulfilmen from antagonistically nitpicking his posts.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Some good news...

A group of student lawyers in Bristol has overturned 95% of decisions made by the Department of Work and Pensions in relation to 200 people it deemed "fit for work".

The volunteers at the Bristol and Avon Law Centre have won £1m in compensation over the past two years after representing claimants who challenged the DWP's assertion they were able to work. The students, from the University of the West of England, represented their clients at benefit appeals in front of a judge and doctor.

Their 95% success rate is significantly higher than the national rate - which is 59%.

A Group Of Student Lawyers Has Overturned 95% Of DWP Decisions Against 200 People Declared 'Fit For Work'