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A company with a “chilling” record of incompetence, discrimination and alleged fraud is in prime position to take over the new “fitness for work” contract from Atos Healthcare, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked fresh anger after it finally admitted that it does carry out reviews into the deaths of some claimants of disability benefits. DWP had previously stated, in a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act […]
The government’s welfare reform minister is facing calls to be sacked after suggesting that some disabled people should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage. Lord Freud, seen as one of the architects of Conservative welfare reform policy, […]
Ministers are facing fears of fresh chaos in the system set up to administer their new disability benefit. One of the first claimants to be awarded the new personal independence payment (PIP) has warned that disabled people handed one-year awards could […]
A disabled asylum-seeker has successfully fought off a government attempt to evict her and leave her homeless. Wheelchair-user Manjeet Kaur was told by government contractors that she would be evicted from her home of three years in Whalley Range, Manchester, if […]
Continuing progress in making the digital world more inclusive for disabled people should not lead to lower investment in addressing physical and attitudinal barriers, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation (DPO). Rhian Davies, chief executive of Disability Wales (DW), the […]
Four disabled artists are set to play a central role in the year-long series of celebrations that will mark 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta. Next year will see the country marking both 800 years since Magna Carta […]
A disabled man who lost a discrimination case against a theme park due to a legal loophole is now at risk of losing the family home because the company is insisting on recovering its legal costs. Paul and his wife Belinda, […]
The government has admitted funding 17 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in developing countries to produce critical reports for the UN on their own governments, while refusing to fund DPOs for similar work in the UK. The admission came in a response […]
A peer campaigning to become the first disabled president of the Liberal Democrats has complained that the debating chamber of the House of Lords is so inaccessible that sometimes only three wheelchair-users can speak in the same debate. There are believed […]