Right to Work: Right to Welfare

The Right to Work: Right to Welfare (R2W) group have been active since the summer of 2012, when a group of experienced PPR activists began organising with people who were out of work and on benefits at the Social Security office in Corporation Street, Belfast. Against the backdrop of rising unemployment and the most radical re-shaping of our welfare system in its history, the work of the R2W group has received acclaim for its innovative approach to asserting rights in the time of austerity.

Commenting on the R2W group, Ms. Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said, “The important work being done by the Right to Work: Right to Welfare Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland to hold the government accountable through the grassroots development and use of human rights indicators and benchmarks is crucial and should be praised as a promising practice to be followed.”

26 June 2018 - Knee Deep in the Big Muddy..Department for Communities must act now to introduce the People's Proposal

In the wake of an excoriating report on Universal Credit by the National Audit Office, the pressure mounts on the Department for Communities to take action to ensure benefit claimants are afforded basic human rights protections within the social security decision making system.

The Andersonstown News carried an opinion piece by PPR's Development Worker on 12th May 2018. Click below to read the article.

Overwhelming support from district Councils for the People’s Proposal

Most of the Councils have passed motions calling for the implementation of the People’s Proposal by the Department for Communities. 7 out of the 11 Councils have passed motions calling on the Department to ‘introduce a simple but vital checklist for social security decision makers’.

PIP assessments are harming vulnerable people – they must be scrapped

Everybody knows that the PIP assessment process is causing enormous anxiety and distress to people. At its worst is affecting people’s physical and mental health to a point of despair which has driven people in some instances to take their own lives.

The People’s Proposal has gained widespread and deep support across society, from people directly impacted by welfare cuts and sanctions as well as those organisations and charities providing them with advice and support, to political parties and trade unions.

Here are just a few of the reasons people support the implementation of the People’s Proposal.

Well known GP calls for a social security system based on principles of fairness and dignity

This piece was written by Dr John Kyle, a GP working in inner East Belfast, who sees on a daily basis the impact of unfair social security decision making on his patients and their families.

Targeting benefit cuts at the poorest children is a clear breach of their human rights

by Koulla Yiasouma, NI Commissioner for Children and Young People

Most people will have heard of the introduction of the Two Child Limit to new Universal Credit(UC) or Child Tax Credit applicants. Our benefits system is clearly discriminating against third, fourth, fifth children by making them ineligible for social security.

The PIP assessment is rigged to fail - here's how you can challenge it

PPR calls for the scrapping of the current PIP assessment – here are the reasons why

“Sundays are the best days, when there is no post”

(Participant in PPR focus group, speaking about PIP process)

First do no harm? Health regulatory bodies must make it clear that health professionals employed to carry out PIP and WCA Assessments are in breach of their professional code.

The Right to Work; Right to Welfare (R2W) group were joined yesterday in Derry by trade unionists from Derry Trades Union Council, UNITE, UNISON, NIPSA, and political representatives from Sinn Féin, SDLP, and People

26 June 2018 - Knee Deep in the Big Muddy..Department for Communities must act now to introduce the People's Proposal

15 May 2018 - PIP is an abuse of human rights

2 May 2018 - Overwhelming support from district Councils for the People’s Proposal

Overwhelming support from district Councils for the People’s Proposal

2 May 2018 - PIP assessments are harming vulnerable people – they must be scrapped

PIP assessments are harming vulnerable people – they must be scrapped

2 May 2018 - Here are just a few of the reasons people support the implementation of the People’s Proposal

The People’s Proposal has gained widespread and deep support across society, from people directly impacted by welfare cuts and sanctions as well as those organisations and charities providing them with advice and support, to political parties and trade unions.

Here are just a few of the reasons people support the implementation of the People’s Proposal.

2 May 2018 - Well known GP calls for a social security system based on principles of fairness and dignity

Well known GP calls for a social security system based on principles of fairness and dignity

2 May 2018 - Targeting benefit cuts at the poorest children is a clear breach of their human right

Targeting benefit cuts at the poorest children is a clear breach of their human rights

by Koulla Yiasouma, NI Commissioner for Children and Young People

28 March 2018 - PPR calls for the scrapping of the current PIP assessment – here are the reasons why

18 January 2018 - First do no harm? Health regulatory bodies must act in relation to PIP and WCA assessors

First do no harm? Health regulatory bodies must make it clear that health professionals employed to carry out PIP and WCA Assessments are in breach of their professional code.

25 August 2017 - People's Proposal supported in Derry by Trade Unions and Political Parties

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