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The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he asked civil servants to examine the issue. It […]
MPs have failed to question a minister on the continuing failure to introduce a legal duty for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “safeguard” people who receive state benefits. The evidence session was reviewing progress by the department since […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over its commitment to the safety of benefit claimants after replacing its chief medical adviser with an expert in medicine for older adults. Disability News Service (DNS) understands that Dr Gail […]
A “milestone” report by the care watchdog has found “systemic weaknesses” in the way some local authorities across England are delivering their adult social care duties. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it was most concerned about the variation in performance […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors, particularly on disabled people’s universal credit claims, three years after new “quality assurance” checks were introduced Reports obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) analyse whether DWP staff […]
Disabled people are being hurt, harmed and killed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at a scale that overshadows every other scandal in British society in recent decades, MPs have been told. Disabled activist Rick Burgess warned MPs on […]
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”. Pat […]
The work and pensions secretary has admitted to MPs that his department has identified “key areas for improvement” in how it protects benefit claimants from harm, following years of deaths linked to its actions and failings. In a letter to the […]
A Labour-led committee of MPs has called the government’s universal credit cuts act “discriminatory” and warned that it will push disabled people into poverty, despite every one of its Labour members voting for the legislation in July. The Universal Credit Act […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally released excerpts of secret reports that show how its errors contributed to the deaths of universal credit (UC) claimants, just days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year-cuts to the UC health element. […]