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I thought I do this thread to put on what's going on , so we can be kept upto date. Another out come that ofcom aren't doing anything against the vile woman Isabel oakshot on her views of young disabled people on talk. Also that bloke who did that program on benefits on channel 4. There not doing anything either
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Thanks for sharing @Andi66, that's interesting to read. It's sad to hear that nothing will be done about those TV shows, they caused a lot of distress for many.
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They are, she is terrible
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I feel so so depressed with all this and waiting for uc letter it's to much also another benefit check with housing benefit like us all just give us a break it's so overwhelming
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I wouldn't worry about uc until it arrives and go to cab to help you.
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Ofcom is the Ministry of Truth.
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Starmer is inhuman,
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From Benefits and work
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So Labour are trying to bribe rebels that money will be given to reduce child poverty if they vote for pip cuts.
This is disgusting, I hope the Labour mps don't do this and stand up for both.
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It doesn't matter how many Labour MPs rebel, Starmer's brethren in the Tory party will vote for it anyway.
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Thank you for sharing these articles @Andi66, very interesting to read and be aware of
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https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/81b2f2cf-9c00-410c-80c2-bfab84e830c1
This is the work and pensions committee this week
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https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/increasing-amounts-of-green-paper-data.
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Kendell and Timms are disgusting. Surely by lying about this is an offence in parliament. They were all over Boris when when he lied .
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Stephen Timms should go and be replaced. Richard Burgon would be ideal.
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Kendell should resign,
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Andi, thank you! Steve Darling MP was brilliant. From your link:
Reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly double… as MPs vote for billions in cutsBy John Pring on 17th July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system.
The number of “serious cases” accepted for a secret internal process review (IPR) in which the claimant was receiving universal credit (UC) rose from 31 in 2023-24 to 55 last year.
In all, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) agreed that 90 serious cases should be examined through an IPR in 2024-25, of which 59 followed a claimant’s death, compared with a total of 53 IPRs the previous year.
The figures were released through DWP’s annual report, published this week, which says that 42 of the IPRs involved personal independence payment (an increase from 27 the previous year), and 21 involved an employment and support allowance claimant (an increase on 15 in 2023-24).
DWP claims in the report that the increased number of IPRs followed “awareness sessions across the Department to increase understanding of IPRs and the learning process from serious cases”.
The report was published on 10 July, just hours after MPs had voted through the new universal credit bill that will cut the health element of UC for most new claimants from £97 a week to £50 a week, from April 2026.
There is no mention of these cuts in the introduction to the report by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, who instead says the department is “showing how an active government changes people’s lives for the better” and how it is “supporting struggling families, helping people to get into and get on at work, [and] giving disabled people the dignity they deserve or ensuring security in retirement”.
It is possible that some MPs might have voted differently last week if they had known how many “serious cases” involving universal credit claimants were being probed by DWP while they were being asked to vote for cuts to that support.
Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week that DWP was refusing to release recommendations from universal credit IPRs dating back as a far as 2020, despite telling the information rights tribunal that it would release at least some of that information by 31 March this year.
DWP has been promising for months that the reason it will not release the IPR information to DNS is because it is “intended for future publication”.
DNS understands that some of this information could be published later today (Thursday).
Asked why the IPR figures were released just hours after the cuts bill was voted through the Commons, and whether this was a coincidence, or if ministers had deliberately held back publication until the bill was passed by MPs, DWP had failed to comment by noon today.
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Well the house of Lords back the cuts, it's alright for them on £300 a day.
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Another cover up from shameful governments
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