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Links to further reading to accompany Asylum article

Deaths by Welfare

https://deathsbywelfare.org

Roundup of proposals:

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/tory-plans-pip-no-longer-always-cash,-wca-harder-to-pass,-uc-migration-sooner,-no-gp-sick-notes,-dwp-power-to-arrest-and-fine

DSA cuts

Reforms to disabled students’ support ‘will confuse and dilute our rights’

Work programme scrapped

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/21/help-disabled-people-england-wales-jobs-axed-benefits-crackdown

Latest WCA abolition figures

WCA reforms by 2028-29, 457,000 people are expected to lose benefits support…and only 15,400 are expected to move into work.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-reform-estimated-number-of-claimants-affected/work-capability-assessment-reform-update-to-estimated-number-of-claimants-affected

On the WCA they are already in process with: they are keeping substantial risk but reducing it to only cover ‘exceptional circumstances’, removing mobilising points and for getting about, are reducing points.

Also DWP bank spying in DPDI bill (being debated on Lords this afternoon)

Briefing on DPDI DWP bank spying powers which ties with proposals for DWP to acquire police powers.

https://gmcdp-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/rick/ERuB9kxRgEFOqmusiZsk37EB9ezHGgw_7jYaiqxDrYxP3g?rtime=5wti3JBr3Eg

PIP briefing with link 

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/replace-pip-with-a-catalogue-and-decide-whether-food-or-medication-is-more-important-for-disabled-people-2024-pip-changes-green-paper

Fit note consultation

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/fit-note-reform-call-for-evidence/fit-note-reform-call-for-evidence

Mental Health Professionals Need To Help People With DWP Processes To Save Lives

Mental Health Professionals Need To Help People With DWP Processes To Save Lives

The Invisible Prison – Panopticon Of The DWP

The Invisible Prison – Panopticon Of The DWP

Cruelty of the DWP

An Epistle of Cruelty: Life in the parallel shadow penal state of the DWP

DWP job scheme fails

Key DWP jobs scheme failed to help people with long-term conditions into work

Government silent over adviser’s Unum admission

Government silent over adviser’s Unum admission

Having a bad job can be worse for your health than being unemployed

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/having-a-bad-job