Volunteer advocate (retired) for adults with a learning disability. Author of 'Benefits on Trial' and 'Austerity's Victims'.
Mullion, England
Joined April 2014
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Benefits on Trial exposes DWP injustice to people with a learning disability. Poverty and pressure on their mental health that only independent tribunals set right.
Buy print version (cost price) or Kindle (77p): amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
From the author of Austerity's Victims.
Neil Carpenter retweeted
Worth checking out @NeilCarpenter14
His books are incredible accounts of how bad actually DWP are.
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@NeilCarpenter14 has written 2 very affordable books about how damaging it is for those claiming disability benefits .
Here’s one
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Neil Carpenter retweeted
When Neil Carpenter became a volunteer advocate for people with a learning disability, the thing that shocked him most was their poverty. Anyone who thinks benefits are generous or easy to access should read his book. #WelfareReformBill #TakingThePIP
Benefits on Trial exposes DWP injustice to people with a learning disability. Poverty and pressure on their mental health that only independent tribunals set right.
Buy print version (cost price) or Kindle (77p): amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
From the author of Austerity's Victims.
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
‘Benefits on Trial’ explores the strain created by the DWP on 6 people with a learning disability. Not just finances but also mental health. One suffers panic attacks. Another’s mother says, ‘There were times when I was so low that I started to wish that Jon and I weren’t here’.
‘Benefits on Trial’. 6 people with a learning disability battle with the DWP whose system, with built-in hurdles, is loaded against them. Rejected for PIP. Pushed deeper into relative poverty. Left below 30% of UK median household income.
Despite a new government in 2024, the flaws in the DWP remain. Change needed urgently: see ‘Benefits on Trial’ for evidence of how people with a learning disability are treated.
‘Benefits on Trial’ does not aim to make a profit on sales but rather to show to as many people as possible how unfairly people with a learning disability are treated by the DWP. The print version is therefore for sale at cost price, £2.83, and the e-book version at only 77p.
Neil Carpenter retweeted
Highly Recommended. It's a hard read in terms of the experiences of people, but its an absolute necessity.
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
‘Benefits on Trial’ examines how, at the tribunal stage, people with a learning disability have injustice at the hands of the DWP set right. DWP decisions are overturned by a massive margin. amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TDVMWPV/r…
Neil Carpenter retweeted
"'British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach apparently designed to ... enforcing blind compliance over a genuine concern to improve the well-being of those at the lowest levels of British society.'"
Detailed review of Benefits on Trial, relating it to – among other things – the study of poverty in the UK made by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
ekklesia.co.uk/2022/03/22/be…
Neil Carpenter retweeted
There’s also two outstanding books by @NeilCarpenter14
‘Benefits on Trial’ explores the strain created by the DWP on 6 people with a learning disability. Not just finances but also mental health. One suffers panic attacks. Another’s mother says, ‘There were times when I was so low that I started to wish that Jon and I weren’t here’.
Neil Carpenter retweeted
I’m disabled, 5 years, I’ve used up savings now and am terrified of the future. As minimum wage increases, prices go up and we get left behind
Neil Carpenter retweeted
@NeilCarpenter14 has written two books about the challenges of our broken welfare state and financial support for the most vulnerable.
I feel we’re not moving from that trajectory, despite a change of government.
‘Benefits on Trial’. 6 people with a learning disability battle with the DWP whose system, with built-in hurdles, is loaded against them. Rejected for PIP. Pushed deeper into relative poverty. Left below 30% of UK median household income.
Despite a new government in 2024, the flaws in the DWP remain. Change needed urgently: see ‘Benefits on Trial’ for evidence of how people with a learning disability are treated.