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All our blogs are written by Z2K's staff, trustees and volunteers
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Why the voices of tenants living on benefits in the Private Rented Sector Matter
In her blog, Raji discusses the impact of welfare reforms on our Private Rented Sector Access Scheme and why securing additional funding to employ a Campaigns and Tenants Voice Officer is so crucial for our work moving forward.
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From Assessment to Assessment, from 65 Points to Zero: No Safety in the System
Our head of casework writes about one of our disabled clients who in 2016 was awarded 65 points on her Employment and Support Allowance with the recommendation never to be reassessed at Tribunal. She was then reassessed and awarded ZERO points.
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Discretion is an injustice: DWP threatens to sanction disabled people challenging flawed health assessments under Universal Credit
Over 112,000 signed our petition, many of whom are shocked and upset about the DWP' discouraging GPs from providing fit notes and allowing people to access the appeal rate of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). But under Universal Credit no equivalent exists, leaving disabled people like “Aaron” threatened with sanctions.
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Latest news
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Press Release: DWP Response to Work & Pensions Inquiry into the Benefit Cap
Anti-poverty charity, Z2K today slammed DWP’s response to the Work & Pensions Select Committee as “complacent” and “harmful”. The charity, which has helped hundreds of families affected by the cap since its introduction in 2013, was amongst those organisations giving evidence to the committee as part of its inquiry last autumn into the impact of the lower cap.
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An update on Z2K’s #ScraptheLetters campaign
We launched our campaign to stop the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from sending letters telling doctors to withhold sick notes from the ill and disabled people seeking Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
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Press Release: Today, campaigners hand in petition with over 87,000 signatories to Amber Rudd demanding the immediate withdrawal of damaging letters affecting doctors and the disabled.
Over 87,000 people have signed Z2K’s petition to #ScraptheLetters. Today, they stand outside the Department for Work in Pensions in protest of the damaging and misleading letters they are sending to GPs stating that their patients do not need a “fit note” anymore because they’ve been found fit for work.
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