Instead of paying back the amount exceeding the threshold, Department for Work and Pensions claws back all £81.90 for each week in breach. This means a carer earning £1 above the £151 threshold for 52 weeks would typically repay £4,258.80 rather than £52.

But all this can be stopped with a pen. 🖊️

I welcome this landmark Infected Blood Inquiry report. It shows how the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history became a huge scandal due to a 40 year cover-up. An apology will only be meaningful if action follows, first on compensation and then on how the state treats our citizens.

‘The bank gave my family a £1 coin after our father’s death from Infected blood we lost everything #InfectedBloodInqiry enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/… paula peters Bad Putty Tat Disability News Service Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union DPAC Sheffield #DontVoteLabour 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ Black Triangle Trent Mani Isna La #NativeLivesMatter 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🕊 Anita Bellows

Why is the EU showing “solidarity” with a regime that is aiding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians?

It is not only carers but every single benefit claimant who have to pay back overpayments due to DWP's incompetence, every time DWP makes a mistake. How much DWP is saving by doing so? And is it incompetence or deliberate?

How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask wealth funds that have councils over a barrel theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Martin Barrow paula peters Anita Bellows Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union Trent Mani Isna La #NativeLivesMatter 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🕊 vam Socialist 'For the Many, Not the Few'# NHS💙💜 DPAC Sheffield #DontVoteLabour 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ Prem Sikka Peter Stefanovic Bad Putty Tat

'Homelessness as policy .. John Burn-Murdoch Here the column in full ft.com/content/24117a…… paula peters John Pring Anita Bellows Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union Trent Mani Isna La #NativeLivesMatter 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🕊 vam Socialist 'For the Many, Not the Few'# NHS💙💜 Ellen Clifford DPAC Sheffield #DontVoteLabour 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ Prem Sikka Peter Stefanovic Bad Putty Tat

Sir Michael Marmot Homelessness as national policy! Read John Burn-Murdoch piece in the Financial Times x.com/jburnmurdock/s.. paula peters John Pring Anita Bellows Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union Trent Mani Isna La #NativeLivesMatter 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🕊 vam Socialist 'For the Many, Not the Few'# NHS💙💜 Ellen Clifford DPAC Sheffield #DontVoteLabour 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ Prem Sikka Peter Stefanovic Bad Putty Tat

Public Law Project Discrimination in Welfare Benefits Webinar *Please Read re booking publiclawproject.org.uk/events/discrim… Ellen Clifford paula peters John Pring Anita Bellows Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union Trent Mani Isna La #NativeLivesMatter 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🕊 vam Socialist 'For the Many, Not the Few'# NHS💙💜 DPAC Sheffield #DontVoteLabour 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ Prem Sikka Peter Stefanovic Bad Putty Tat

The evidence continues to roll in from across the UK. Water privatisation has been a complete failure.

Anita Bellows This is a longstanding issue... they are using the same tactics we exposed in this study how they deployed during the coalition government's austerity measures - 'fraud' was similarly minuscule yet disability benefit recipients demonised. x.com/EmmaLBriant/st…

I am so angry. My mother, blind, wheelchair user, 97, asked her carer today which carer will come tomorrow. The answer: You will see tomorrow.

Of course they knew
Ministers knew about carer’s allowance problems three years ago, report reveals
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Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: PIP fraud is a non-issue
PIP fraud stood at 0% in the financial year ending 2024. Meanwhile, disability living allowance (DLA) fraud was just 0.1%, rounded to £0m
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Only the Tories could deliver unsafe drinking water into homes of people during a cost of living crisis forcing them to use some of the most expensive power in Europe to boil the water for 20 minutes to avoid being ill & being criticised for being part of the sick note culture.

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

⬆️Sunak's family wealth rises to £651 million

Meanwhile:

⬇️UK now homelessness capital of the developed world
⬇️ Biggest fall in living standards since records began
⬇️ Sick and disabled targeted with welfare cuts

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Profoundly deaf claimant Paul Rimmer awarded £50,000 by court for 'oppressive & discriminatory behaviour' after DWP mistreated him for 6 years.

One disability adviser wanted work coaches to punish him 'firmly' with directions & sanctions for complaining.

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