DISABLED activists called on the Metro newspaper to apologise today after they said it knowingly printed “snidey government propaganda.”
It comes after the seventh instalment of pro-universal credit advertorials, created by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and published in the Metro, appear to have stopped early.
In a leaked memo, sent out by the government’s universal credit “change director” Neil Couling in May, it was revealed that authorities planned to launch a propaganda campaign dubbed “UC Uncovered” in the Metro newspaper.
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Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
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A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY