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SCOTS with disabilities face a “deficit of dignity” under the jiggery-pokery of Britain’s benefit system, an MSP warned yesterday.
The chair of Holyrood’s welfare reform committee urged ordinary people to “shine a light” on the coalition’s latest welfare wheeze by giving evidence to his panel.
Labour’s Michael McMahon said he wanted to hear first-hand experiences of claiming the Con-Dems’ new “personal independence payment” (PIP) — launched in 2011 after axing the longstanding disability living allowance.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE