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A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases” linked to the department’s actions. The Complaints, Suicides and Other […]
Three disabled people who lost relatives as a result of past reforms to disability benefits have spoken of their horror at the Labour government’s plans to cut billions of pounds from the system. Tuesday’s Pathways to Work green paper announced cuts […]
Four disabled people told MPs of the life-threatening risks that would be caused by proposed cuts to disability benefits, just a day before the government confirmed the “very, very dangerous” reforms. About 10 MPs from Labour, the SNP, the SDLP and […]
The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked fresh anger after again publicly downplaying links between the deaths of disabled benefit claimants and her own department’s actions. Dr Gail Allsopp (pictured), who was appointed to the […]
MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the actions of ministers, senior civil servants and advisers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Disability News Service […]
Labour’s new work and pensions secretary has told MPs that she is open to the idea of her department being subject to a legal “safeguarding duty”, a move that could transform its approach to the safety of disabled benefit claimants. Liz […]
Campaigners have welcomed election defeats for a series of former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers, while also expressing disappointment that three of the most unpopular figures from the last 14 years managed to survive the Labour landslide. There was […]
The equality watchdog has finally launched a – limited – investigation into unlawful treatment by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of disabled benefit claimants, including some who died, five years after it was first told to act. The move […]
The equality watchdog has been accused of bowing to political pressure by failing to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to prevent further deaths of disabled benefit claimants, two years after promising to take legal action. It is now […]
Disabled people’s organisations have welcomed the “damning verdict” of a UN committee on the government’s track record on key disability rights over the last seven years. They spoke out last night (Wednesday) as the UN committee on the rights of disabled […]