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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.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
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
