Category Archives: benefits
Benefits ‘cuts’ will hit cancer patients hard, say advisors
Until somebody becomes sick, they won’t understand what it’s like
Published on Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:00
CANCER patients face a bleak future in the face of changes being made to the benefits system, specialist welfare advisors in Leamington are warning.
Macmillan Cancer Support funds a Welfare Rights and Benefits Service at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Hamilton Terrace, where case workers Karen Jones and Jenny Harding aim to help cancer patients, their carers and those in palliative care deal with issues they may have to do with accessing funds, housing, dealing with employers and other welfare issues.
Cuts to disability benefits – the human cost
Monday 13 February 2012
The Courier speaks to disabled people in Warwickshire about their concerns over the Government’s benefits reforms.
The Coalition is pressing on with its reforms to the UK benefits system – and among those affected are the disabled.
Last week Warwickshire group Disabled People Against Cuts protested against the Welfare Reform Bill outside the office of Warwick and Leamington MP Chris White, who nonetheless voted in favour of the Bill.
Reporter Sundari Sankar spoke to two of Mr White’s disabled constituents, and asked Mr White to explain his decision.
Nearly 900 families in fear over ‘the bedroom tax’ in Hinckley and Bosworth
Council tenants in Hinckley and Bosworth could face extra bedroom tax if Government plans get green light
Feb 9 2012 by Ben Eccleston, Hinckley Times
NEARLY 900 families in Hinckley and Bosworth could be hit with an extra tax for under-occupation if a new Government bill gets the go-ahead.
Figures from the National Housing Federation reveal that a total of 889 families living in council homes in the borough could be forced to shell out an extra £498 a year – labelled a bedroom tax – if their homes are deemed too large for the number of people living there.
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