Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights

22/05/2026

If you owe DWP money then this could apply to you!

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21/05/2026

Disabled campaigners have welcomed Motability’s decision to suspend a controversial programme that uses technology to monitor how its customers are driving, but they have also called for it to scra…

21/05/2026

The former Labour minister commissioned to investigate why so many younger people are not in jobs, training or education has told MPs that he believes work can be a cure for the “tsunami of distres…

21/05/2026

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found another excuse for not releasing vital information that would show why cuts were made to many disabled people’s Access to Work packages after La…

21/05/2026

The government’s reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will violate disabled people’s rights and worsen inequality, according to a leading disabled people’s organi…

21/05/2026

A Commons debate that followed last week’s king’s speech was littered with misleading statements about disabled people’s support, both from the Conservative opposition and the Labour government. Mu…

20/05/2026

Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to pay

20/05/2026

" GPs will no longer issue “sick notes” under a government trial that aims to reduce the number of benefits claimants who are signed off work because of poor health, The Times understands.

The pilot programme is set to refer workers struggling with their health to “social prescribers” based in their doctors’ surgery, who will recommend patients take up alternatives such as exercise regimes and job coaching to help them stay in work.
More than 11 million people were given a “fit note”, formerly called a sick note, last year, according to official statistics. Almost all of them declared the recipient “not fit for work”, meaning they received no further support on re-entering employment. "

The government will test out four different approaches in a set of trials running across England from July. Two will not require patients to see GPs at all, instead sending them for treatment directly with social proscribers who are based in their doctors’ surgery who can issue the fit note and connect the patient with relevant support.
The other two will require patients to see a GP to obtain the fit note before they are referred onwards.

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20/05/2026

UC Claimant Error 0.9%
PIP Claimant Error 0.7%
DLA CE 0.3%
ESA CE 1.6%
JSA CE 0.3%
Carers CE 1.0%
Pension Credit CE 4.6%
Housing Benefit 2.1%
State Pension 0.1%
Attendance Allowance 1.9%
Incapacity 0.9%
Income support 1.0%

These numbers are low compared to the reports of wide scale fraud in the press and claims made by politicians. so make sure you note them when challenging the BS the media knock out daily. This relates to claimant error only whereas the media uses Fraud inc dept error

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15/05/2026

Welfare spending, which includes state pensions, has been higher than income tax for at least 13 years, contrary to a claim in the Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech.