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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 […]
Two senior Liberal Democrat ministers have refused to criticise the Conservative chancellor for misleading voters about how he would protect disabled people from his planned benefits freeze. Both Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister, […]
A Liberal Democrat minister has cast doubt on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims that it does not collect or analyse accounts of disability benefit-related deaths. The comments of pensions minister Steve Webb at his party’s annual conference in Glasgow […]
A Liberal Democrat government would aim to reduce the stress caused to disabled people by multiple assessments, ensure ministers stop talking up the issue of benefit fraud, and provide more personalised, locally-based employment support. The party wants local authorities to be […]
The chancellor has been accused of misleading voters, after he pledged that disability benefits would not be affected by a two-year “freeze” on social security. George Osborne told a delighted Conservative party conference in Birmingham this week that working-age benefits would […]
The new Conservative minister for disabled people has insisted that his department is right to ignore reports of deaths linked to the loss or non-payment of disability benefits. Mark Harper said he did not accept that the Department for Work and […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted making no effort to collect – or learn the lessons from – reports of disabled people whose deaths have been linked to the withdrawal or non-payment of disability benefits. The admission came […]
At least 150,000 disabled people have been waiting longer than four months for the government to decide on their claims for the coalition’s new disability benefit, new official figures suggest. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show that about […]
New official figures appear to have borne out fears that misleading information used by the IT company Atos to win a disability assessment contract would lead to longer queues for disabled benefit claimants. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last year that […]