SackEstherMcVeyAgain

A campaign to unseat Tory Employment Minister Esther McVey.

[SackEstherMcVeyAgain @sackestheragain]

Ex-Equality Minister @EstherMcVey1 is promoted to #DWP top job despite fact she breached #Equality laws back in 2013 as junior Minister. Sign petition to #SackEstherMcVey https://t.co/Z7xchdLDy3 …
@sackestheragain https://t.co/XVZrbZ86L2
@walkingthebread @Rachael_Swindon

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

Boris Johnson urged to correct claim about benefit claimant who starved to death
https://t.co/rtgV7PfLID

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BBC Inside The Welfare State: Why Liverpool staff refused to take part https://t.co/HIhHDxrMee

With the volume of hardship & problems associated with Universal Credit in Liverpool - staff didn't want to be publicly associated with a documentary that the govt is pushing forward.

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#UniversalCredit: Inside the Welfare State starts tonight on BBC2 at 9pm. https://t.co/tHcfdT8mtb

iplayer: https://t.co/a23BrJkSol

This 3-part documentary was discussed in a leaked internal memo & is part of DWP's strategy to show Universal Credit in a more positive light.

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Brighton MP to open debate on housing benefit for young homeless people https://t.co/jfCFpEmexJ

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A single parent with two children in a national living wage job now needs to work 23 hours a week to live free of poverty, compared to 16 hours in 2010 https://t.co/wHDlR4hMAm

Working hard(ship)
An exploration of poverty, work and tenure https://t.co/3jmuvZeGuI

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Jobcentres are a one-stop shop?

Not anymore, they normally signpost people to charities and other organisations, rather than help and support people themselves. #UniversalCredit

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Lack of social housing fuelling £1.1bn temporary homes ‘industry’, investigation reveals https://t.co/DUDGuidp44

The figures show the amount being paid to private accommodation providers has almost doubled in the last five years from £490m in 2013/14 to £939m in 2018/19.

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Disabled PIP claimants face 140-mile round trip for assessment after Bangor DWP closure https://t.co/nzkJnY4X1s

Some claimants have been told by Capita that to get a PIP assessment, they’d have to make the 140-mile round trip to Rhyl, whilst also being denied a home visit.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

What everyone should take away from #UniversalCredit #InsideTheWelfateState is the fact the BBC kept all the failures and spiraling costs secret for over 5 months.

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

No one should ever need to use a #foodbank. But as tonight's @BBCTwo doc highlights, #UniversalCredit isn't the poverty-fighting reform that was once promised. People experiencing delays, esp with the five-week wait, have been forced to charity to survive. This isn't right.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

💥 BBC Waits 5 Months to Report £500 Million Universal Credit Delay

Despite learning of the latest #UniversalCredit delay in September 2019, the BBC have only reported it now; 5 months later.

The BBC like the @DWP, kept this quiet and nobody is bothered.
https://t.co/aQbnyZvU1w

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Fewer disabled people get care as providers 'run out of options' to cut costs https://t.co/Jc44wQjBdp

Care Providers who were surveyed said they had offered care to fewer people last year, with an average reduction of 8%. One in three said they had cut jobs by an average 4%.

[liane gomersall @ligomersall]

"Work alone cannot eliminate poverty." One quarter of social renters are now living in poverty, even when all adults in the household work, the Resolution Foundation finds https://t.co/BFojoHyyiV

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Arrogance.

Watch how this Tory MP responded to a thoughtful question about food hunger in Scotland. In a week we learn a man starved to death on Universal Credit to give this reply is appalling.

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Councils let firms track visits to webpages on benefits and disability https://t.co/uYlmZnKS61

Critics argue that council websites serve a public purpose and should not let outside firms monitor users’ activity, especially given the sensitive nature of some visits.

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DWP marked down or binned around 2300 health assessments for benefit claims in Scotland last year https://t.co/aIUrsVn3D7

🔸460 cases: applications branded unacceptable.
🔸1840 cases: paperwork amended

This has raised fears many are losing support they should be entitled to.

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Government accused of 'dragging its heels' over wheelchair accessible rail replacement buses https://t.co/u4uoBiU4l1

Train operators were given until 1 January to ensure the vehicles they used were wheelchair accessible, but the govt has now offered an extension until 30 April.

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Northern Ireland: welfare mitigation extension announced - Around 38,000 households will continue to receive financial support that protects them from the bedroom tax https://t.co/4jYeyGICEX

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

Sadly the stories tonight on @BBCPanorama are all too familiar in Boris' Britain...127,000 children spent Christmas without a home, living in temporary accommodation. The #hiddenhomelessness crisis is the result of a decade of failure on housing by the @Conservatives