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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to publish details of multiple flaws within its universal credit working-age benefits system that led to deaths and serious harm to claimants. The information came in a policy paper on what […]
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 […]
Disabled people’s organisations have imagined a future in which disabled people live in an “equitable” society with an AI-assisted economy that produces full employment, as part of government-funded research that hopes to produce more “strategic and proactive” policy-making. The research, commissioned […]
The Sunday Times has refused to apologise for a dehumanising column by television presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson, in which he compared disabled people who receive benefits to dogs. Clarkson (pictured) repeatedly suggested that young autistic people, and those with ADHD, […]
Disabled people’s organisations have welcomed the new prime minister’s pledge that he will face the challenge of fixing the “broken” social care system “head on”, ending decades of “political drift”. Although Andy Burnham has previously described social care charges as an […]
Andy Burnham has delivered a significant blow to attempts to legalise assisted suicide, after he called for the “fixing” of social care and palliative care funding before there was any debate on legalisation. The new prime minister spoke out yesterday (Wednesday) […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disability living allowance (DLA) for personal independence payment (PIP). Just months after completing* […]
A financial regulator has been asked to investigate the conduct of the two companies responsible for Motability’s controversial Drive Smart programme, which caused panic and distress among many disabled customers before it was paused earlier this year. In May, Motability Operations […]
Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on work and pensions reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks of the sanction-heavy approach he appears to favour. In his first […]
Disabled people have told researchers that charging for social care is “unjust and harmful”, just as the new prime minister has spoken of his determination to address reform of the social care system. This week, Andy Burnham pledged to face the […]