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With its 37p increase the government is punishing disabled people
Disabled people have been hit especially hard by this pandemic, yet the government is refusing to increase benefits, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
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SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media
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THE coronavirus crisis has not just been a public health emergency but a social emergency too. So it should have been a moment to bring society together — to rebuild our social security system to ensure that everyone had the support needed to get through this crisis and beyond.
Yet many have been thrown into even greater hardship while the government has chosen to simply wash its hands of its responsibility to support them.
Take the benefits that millions survive on. This week those benefits were increased by just 37p a week for those on so-called “legacy benefits.”
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