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Ben Baumberg Geiger

DWP finally publishes long-awaited universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats

By John Pring on 15th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP finally publishes long-awaited universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published its first set of figures that show how many disabled people who receive universal credit are being found fit for work after an assessment. It has taken more than four years […]

Claim that government reduced the disability employment gap is wrong, experts tell MPs

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Employment

Claim that government reduced the disability employment gap is wrong, experts tell MPs
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The government has made no progress since 2010 in closing the disability employment gap, MPs were told yesterday by academics. Ministers have long bragged about their success in reducing the difference between the proportion of disabled people and non-disabled people in […]

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows

By John Pring on 22nd February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running a discriminatory benefit sanctions regime, following the publication of new research. Academic Ben Baumberg Geiger has found that more than 900,000 disabled claimants of the mainstream […]

Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut
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A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help them find work. They were giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee, as part of its inquiry into the government’s pledge […]

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