Patrick Butler · Feb 10, 2025 · 6:08 PM UTC

Patrick Butler

10 Feb 2025

"As a mental health clinician, I cannot emphasise enough how many relapses have been triggered by the relentless media drumbeat about 'cracking down' on benefits": good Guardian letters on incapacity benefit cuts. theguardian.com/politics/202…

Benefits system should protect, not punish, vulnerable people | Letters

Letters: Labour’s focus on crackdowns and fraudsters lodges in the psyche, feeding precarity and self-doubt, says Dr Jay Watts. Plus a letter from Stephanie O’Brien

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