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DISABILITY campaigners will rally today in solidarity with a welfare activist dragged into court for advising benefit claimants at an assessment centre.
Dr Tony Cox, a campaigner with the Scottish Unemployed Workers Network (SUWN), was arrested last November while accompanying a claimant to a disability benefits test in Dundee.
Despite Department for Work and Pensions regulations giving people the right to representation at all appointments, staff at the centre refused to allow Dr Cox in and called the police.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
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