More than 6,313 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants in Southwark could lose their essential support, according to figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats through a Parliamentary Question.
Southwark Council has once again been found to have carried out severe maladministration by the Housing Ombudsman, this time for failing to fix contaminated water in a block of flats, leaving at least three homes without safe water for over a year.
The Liberal Democrats have drafted a letter to the Prime Minister, warning that his comments referring to the country as an “island of strangers” risk undermining the values that underpin successful and diverse communities such as Southwark.
To mark the end of Carers Week (9th –13th June), the Liberal Democrats have released a video with Adam, a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Surrey Docks, who cares for his mother in law Irene, who is 69 and has Parkinsons.
Southwark Liberal Democrats have responded to today’s spending review, unveiled by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Southwark Liberal Democrats have called on the Government to backdate the Winter Fuel Payment for local pensioners who lost out last winter.
