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DWP staff admit inflicting ‘psychological harm’ on claimants during coalition years

By John Pring on 1st April 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff admit inflicting ‘psychological harm’ on claimants during coalition years
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff and managers deliberately inflicted psychological harm on benefit claimants, engaged in unofficial sanctioning targets, and pushed disabled people into work despite the risk to their health, shocking new testimony has revealed. The evidence comes […]

DWP decision to resume face-to-face assessments ‘is too soon and too dangerous’

By John Pring on 1st April 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP decision to resume face-to-face assessments ‘is too soon and too dangerous’
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Disabled campaigners have warned the government that it is too soon, and too dangerous, to resume face-to-face assessments for disability benefit claimants. They spoke out after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced this week that face-to-face work capability assessments […]

DWP faces another call to act over pandemic assessment unfairness

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP faces another call to act over pandemic assessment unfairness
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing its second call to act in consecutive weeks over the impact of the pandemic on disabled people waiting for their benefit claims to be assessed. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported […]

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue

By John Pring on 18th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue
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Claimants of disability benefits who successfully overturned decisions at tribunal are being told their support could be cut off, because of a shortage of assessment professionals and a backlog of claims caused by the pandemic. Claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) […]

Legal action launched over ‘blatant discrimination’ of DWP’s £20-a-week uplift

By John Pring on 11th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Legal action launched over ‘blatant discrimination’ of DWP’s £20-a-week uplift
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Two disabled people have launched a legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its failure to offer recipients of so-called legacy benefits the same £20-a-week benefit increase given to those on universal credit. They and hundreds of […]

Errol Graham family hope to appeal ‘baffling’ ruling on DWP benefit death

By John Pring on 11th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham family hope to appeal ‘baffling’ ruling on DWP benefit death
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The family of a disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hope to appeal a court’s “baffling” ruling that it was “reasonable” to take such action. The high […]

Atos pays out for negligent PIP assessment after visit from debt enforcement officers

By John Pring on 4th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos pays out for negligent PIP assessment after visit from debt enforcement officers
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A court has forced a discredited government contractor to pay £2,500 compensation to a disabled woman, after a negligent disability benefit assessment left her in debt and experiencing significant mental distress. Atos, which failed to defend the case, originally ignored the […]

DWP brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for seeking truth about impact of universal credit

By John Pring on 4th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for seeking truth about impact of universal credit
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Disability News Service (DNS) has been branded “vexatious” for trying to secure a key unpublished Department for Work and Pensions document that could finally show how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. DNS […]

Government’s 2016 welfare reforms ‘had devastating impact on disabled people’

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s 2016 welfare reforms ‘had devastating impact on disabled people’
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Government welfare reforms introduced in 2016 have had a “devastating” impact on disabled people and others in low-income households over the last five years, according to a new report by a group of MPs and peers. The report (PDF) by the […]

Audio recording option set to be introduced for all PIP assessments, says DWP

By John Pring on 18th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Audio recording option set to be introduced for all PIP assessments, says DWP
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed that all disabled people being assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) will be able to have their face-to-face assessments recorded. The promise has come in a letter to the Right to […]

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