Category Archives: disability
Food bank Britain: Thousands need charity handouts because of welfare system failings
THOUSANDS of people are relying on food banks to survive because of failings in the welfare system.
A Sunday Express investigation has uncovered scores of cases in which people need charity handouts after being denied benefits because of administration errors and punitive sanctions.
As many as 580,000 cuts to benefit payments were made between October 2012 and June 2013, a six per cent rise on the same period a year earlier, before rules were toughened.
Employment Minister Esther McVey said the sanctions, or cuts to benefits are used only against those who were “wilfully rejecting support for no good reason”.
25 reasons your MP must kill David Cameron’s Bedroom Tax
In the House of Commons, MPs face a critical vote on the Bedroom Tax – called by Labour.
The party is using ‘Opposition Day’ to bring forward a motion on the tax that calls for an immediate end to the policy.
It also asks the House to regret its “pernicious effect on vulnerable, and in many cases disabled, people” and calls the government reverse tax cuts for the wealthiest people instead.