Ministers 'to rethink' disability cuts
Planned changes to disability benefits will be "kicked into the long grass", according to a government source.
3 Apr 2016
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Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes
Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible".
3 Apr 2016
Government seeks views from carers on its new National Carers Strategy
The Minister for Social Care and Community, Alistair Burt MP, has launched a call for evidence to inform the Government's new National Carers Strategy.
3 Apr 2016
Tory Zac Goldsmith forced out as disability charity patron after voting for ESA cuts
Tory Zac Goldsmith has been forced to resign in shame as patron of a disability charity after he voted for cruel disability cuts.
3 Apr 2016
Benefit scrounger…………….Yeah Right
Running your own business is a lot of work because you have to do a lot of admin as well as the actual job. Also there's meetings with potential clients, marketing, etc … the list goes on. So me and #raspberrytalk are not what some people call "work shy", we are both far from it. Before we ran our own business I worked as a sales assistant and #raspberrytalk was a Senior Store Designer for Sainsbury's. Both my job and #raspberrytalk's could mean long hours and sometimes for #raspberrytalk it meant days, even weeks, away from home.
3 Apr 2016
Pensioner left too frightened to get bus after drivers' actions on 'upsetting' journey
An elderly former headteacher today said she was left "too frightened" to use public transport after three upsetting ordeals on London buses in just one evening.
1 Apr 2016