This under the radar benefits cut reminds us why disability justice must centre migrants’ rights

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The Labour government is floating another vicious programme of sweeping cuts to disabled people’s welfare. However, the public could be forgiven for not knowing about these because nowhere in the media or wider sociopolitical disability discourse is anyone talking about them like this is what they are. Notably, while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has meted out devastating cuts to Universal Credit’s health element, and gears up to once again target personal independence payments (PIP), it has also been colluding with the Home Office to strip hundreds of thousands of migrants of access to welfare. This includes those very same…

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Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank reminds Burnham he works for them

A shady right-wing think tank is reminding Andy Burnham who he really answers to. The Centre for Social Justice is calling on ‘Labour’s incumbent Prime Minister’ to ‘grasp the nettle of welfare reform’. Whatever that means. The CSJ is making a big hoo-ha of the fact that there have been half a million more ‘out of-work’ benefit claimants for each Prime Minister that’s lost their job since 2019. Or to put it in terms that aren’t highly sensationalist, an increase of 2.7 million. Think tank’s figures as murky as them And it didn’t take long for them to start shitting on…

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