Category Archives: ukcuts
Cancer support group in jeopardy
THE future of a vital service, which has supported thousands of people affected by cancer throughout Northumberland, has been put in doubt after crucial funding has been discontinued.
The Northumberland Macmillan Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) Welfare Benefits service, which started in 2007, looks set to close county-wide at the end of March, unless major help is found. A slimmed-down version may still be offered in parts of the region, with one CAB representative saying he is ‘absolutely certain’ that attempts will be made to keep it going somehow.
The Government is facing a showdown today re Welfare Reform Bill
The Government is facing a showdown with peers over its controversial shake-up of the benefits system.
The proposals have already endured a difficult time in the House of Lords, where peers inflicted a series of defeats on ministers over the reforms, which will cap benefits at £26,000.
But the changes imposed on the Government were reversed by MPs, and the Welfare Reform Bill now returns to the Lords for what could be a test of strength between the two Houses of Parliament.
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.
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