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Jonathan Williams
A DISABLED war veteran says he is distraught after being stripped of benefits days before Christmas in a “Kafkaesque nightmare.”
Morning Star reader and ex-RAF man Jonathan Williams, 56, served with the UN in Bosnia. He was trapped under fire in the siege of Sarajevo, leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Mr Williams also served several tours of duty in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and on exercise in the Arctic Circle was injured when a helicopter landed on him.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY