Deaths by Welfare Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Bereaved by state violence: grief, solidarity and justice
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People’s deaths linked to the UK welfare system often aren’t named as deaths from state violence. Yet the State is the perpetrator - even as it ki...
Zero Points: The Work Capability Assessment
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of people have died at the hands of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), introduced in October 2008 to assess entitlement to Employment and...
'Death of a Customer'
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2014, Disability News Service and a number of disabled people’s anti-austerity campaigning groups began to question whether the Dep...
Benefit Sanctions as Weapons of State Violence
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Both research and the testimonies of disabled activists and bereaved families have repeatedly shown the harms of benefits sanctions and how sanctions ...
Resisting DWP Violence
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Campaigners have been telling us for years that welfare reforms kill people. This is a story of disabled people and people impacted by the welfare sys...