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Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
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Homepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the little boy with autism in the first episode.
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S4E6 Hackney council will evict a disabled child this Friday. This is why progressives hate Labour.
Oh yes. Labour's very own Hackney council will evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home this Friday, March 6 at 10am. Bailiffs will evict the family.The…
S4E5 Harassment by councils - when you're trying keep a disabled boy housed
In this episode, we hear about the ways that councils can drive people in housing need to the brink.This episode is the 4th about a family with a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy. Hackney council…
S4E4 Protecting your 8 year old autistic brother when your council evicts your family
We return to our Hackney eviction story - where Hackney council tried last week to evict an 8 year old autistic and disabled boy and his family from their council home.Bailiffs turned up to evict the…
S4E3 1 day until Hackney council evicts a disabled child and his family from a council home
What a title that was to write. This episode tells you exactly what it is like to try and stop a family from being evicted by bailiffs. This is a family that is being evicted by their own council -…
S4E2 Autistic and disabled child evicted from a council home - councils really don't have to do this
In this episode, we speak with Kyla who will be evicted from her Hackney council home by bailiffs next week.Kyla has an 8-year-old autistic and disabled son. She's lived in the council place for…
S4E1 Do too many people claim PIP for mental health problems?
Don't think so. Mel claims the personal independence payment for mental health problems.In this episode, she explains how she got there and how one ongoing event in particular pushed her over the…
S3E4 No nationalism here: trashing benefit claimants is a global sport
Last episode for this year!In this episode, we travel across our rising millennium seas to the home nation of New Zealand! We're having a starter look at the ways that NZ's useless government is…
S3E3 Mixing files up, losing sick notes, scanning blank pages: how the benefits system really works
In this episode, we take another look at the benefits and public sector system. It is a total circus. I talk with Michelle Cardno who is a benefits lawyer at Fightback for Justice in Bury. Michelle…
S3E2 ANOTHER leaked email telling professionals NOT to write rehousing support letters for desperate families
In this episode, we look at another extraordinary email that a professional has leaked to me. This one shows a Hackney council officer telling an education officer to stop writing support letters for…
S3E1 Council tells NHS to stop writing support letters for disabled children who desperately need rehousing
In this episode, we look at an extraordinary email that a senior health professional just sent to me.The email says that a Hackney council officer met with health and medical staff, and told them to…
S2E6 We've shut your benefit claim with no warning at all: How the DWP really does disability
In this episode, Niki tells us how the DWP closed her universal credit claim without any warning at all. They just shut it and that was that. Niki has a 7 year old SEND son who also has autism.Niki…
S2E5 "Back to work" programmes for sick and disabled people - dodgy and unfair
In this episode, we look at Liz Kendall's proposed so-called Pathways to Work programme. Liz Kendall plans to spend £1bn to bring councils, jobcentres, voluntary groups and private back to work…
S2E4 The benefits system actually causes mental health problems
In this episode, Megi talks about: the effects that caring for a profoundly disabled autistic child has on mental healthhow difficult it is to get and live on benefits and how that destroys mental…
S2E3 Liz Kendall will NOT protect profoundly disabled people from benefit cuts
In this episode, we return to deeply unpleasant DWP secretary of state Liz Kendall and her plans to cut disability benefits. Liz Kendall claims that disabled people who are most in need (whatever…
S2E2 The benefits heist: how sick and disabled people have paid the price for the anti-welfare craze
In this episode, we take a look at: Political attacks on sick and disabled people in the last 10 yearsClaims that benefit money is easy to get when it is categorically notLiz Kendall's stunning lack…
S2E1 Season 2: Liz Kendall and the great benefits robbery
Labour minister Liz Kendall is secretary of state for the department of work and pensions. Liz is not an original thinker. Like all her Tory predecessors, Liz wants to cut benefit and support money…
S1E9 When your council does not help you escape violence
Anna tells her story in this episode.It's the story of how Anna, her partner and their 2 sons had to leave their council flat because their neighbour, who likes to wield a knife, was threatening to…
S1E8 A really serious breach of very personal data
In this episode, Megi talks about Hackney council forwarding another family's very personal information to her husband's email address. Megi has an autistic daughter. She talked about the family's…
S1E7 Feels like everyone's just waiting for this kid to fall to his death
In this episode, we return to Latoya. Latoya was featured in the first episode of this podcast. She has an incredibly active 7-year-old autistic son who runs, climbs to incredible heights, barely…
S1E6 Letting agents DO NOT show properties to people who claim benefits
In this interlude episode, I ring (and record) letting agents to ask if they accept people who pay rent with benefits like universal credit.You'll hear what the letting agents say.It is actually…
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