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The government has lost or destroyed a secret report that was set to reveal crucial details about the impact of universal credit on “vulnerable” claimants in its early years. The existence of the report was not known about outside government circles […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been asked to explain why it is rejecting so many requests from its own civil servants to carry out secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants. DWP’s top civil servant was questioned […]
The actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are having a significant “debilitating” impact on service-users, particularly those trying to claim universal credit, senior mental health figures have told an inquest. One witness said service-users at a mental health […]
The human rights watchdog has struggled to explain why its major report on Britain’s “equality and human rights landscape” has ignored key breaches of disabled people’s rights by the UK government. The Equality and Human Rights Monitor report*, published today (Thursday), […]
What is known publicly about the harm caused by the benefits system – including deaths by suicide linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – is just “the tip of the iceberg”, MPs have been told. […]
Three women who have lost loved ones to state violence have described how they were able to spend years fighting for justice, while coping with the grief caused by the flawed and dangerous police, mental health and social security systems. Anna […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should not have stopped the benefits of a disabled man who later starved to death, an updated safeguarding review has found after being shown information DWP hid from its original inquiry. It is the […]
A new book will expose how decades of “violent” bureaucracy within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) led eventually to the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of disabled people who were claiming benefits. The Department* reveals how the actions […]
Labour has pledged to scrap Conservative plans to tighten the work capability assessment – reforms described by disabled activists as “cynical” and “horrendously dangerous” – if it wins power at the next election. Although Labour offered almost no information at its […]
The minister for disabled people has failed five times to say whether he was aware of research linking the “fitness for work” test with 590 suicides of disabled benefit claimants, as his department prepares to tighten the assessment even further. The […]