After almost 14 months the Welfare Reform Bill has finally reached the end of its journey through Parliament. The Bill passed its final hurdle in the House of Lords last Wednesday and will shortly become law.
So what does it all mean for people with cancer?
Well, we’ve had some good news in the last month about Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). The government is sticking to its plan to limit the availability of…
In every campaign there are highs and lows. Sadly, this week has been one of the low points in the Welfare Reform Campaign.
On Wednesday, MPs threw out an amendment from the House of Lords which would have exempted cancer patients from the government’s proposal to time limit Employment and Support Allowance. To cap it all, the government then took advantage of a rarely used parliamentary device to try to limit further…
Hello everyone. What a week for our welfare reform campaign! Here in Vauxhall we’re still catching our breath!
A night of high drama in the House of Lords on Wednesday – during which the Government’s Welfare Reform Bill suffered three successive defeats - has given our campaign a remarkable boost. By far the biggest victory of the evening was for an amendment tabled by Lord Patel, which exempts cancer patients…
Good campaigning is all about good partnerships. It’s for this reason that we got together last week with 30 other charities, 60 cancer specialists as well as academics, welfare experts and patients. We sent a letter to the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith MP, raising our concerns around the Government’s plan to reform the benefits system.
The letter, which was covered by The Times on Wednesday…
I wanted to let you all know about some big developments in our ‘put the fair into welfare’ campaign in the last couple of weeks.
At the end of November the government published its long awaited response to Professor Malcolm Harrington’s review of the Work Capability Assessment. The review - which we made a submission to as part of our campaign - looked at the way in which the benefits claims of cancer patients…
