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Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths

By John Pring on 26th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has ignored a question on why she shared a platform at her party’s annual conference with an outsourcing giant linked to the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Kendall was speaking at the fringe event on […]

Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists

By John Pring on 19th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists
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Disabled activists say Labour’s plans to means-test winter fuel payments will leave many current recipients having to decide “whether to starve or freeze”, after the government admitted that 1.6 million disabled people were likely to lose their entitlement. Government figures showed […]

Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board

By John Pring on 19th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board
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Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single representative of a disabled people’s organisation. Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall appears to have […]

DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser

By John Pring on 12th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five years, at a time when its policy decisions were causing countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The department failed […]

Labour’s decision to drop Tory DWP appeal reveals impact of scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test

By John Pring on 5th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s decision to drop Tory DWP appeal reveals impact of scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test
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People with mental distress are “significantly more likely” to be affected by plans to scrap the work capability assessment than claimants with physical impairments, documents released after a freedom of information battle have revealed. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]

Labour fails another transparency test, as DWP appeals order to release information on universal credit deaths

By John Pring on 15th August 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour fails another transparency test, as DWP appeals order to release information on universal credit deaths
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Labour’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed its latest test on transparency after appealing against a regulator’s decision that it should release vital information from secret reports into the deaths of universal credit claimants. The information will show how […]

Crowdfunder’s final push could see book on ‘violent’ DWP sent to politicians across the country

By John Pring on 15th August 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Crowdfunder’s final push could see book on ‘violent’ DWP sent to politicians across the country
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Disabled activists are hoping a final push with their crowdfunding campaign will allow copies of a new book about the “violent” history of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to be sent to key politicians across the country. By this […]

DWP told PM’s civil servants fears about universal credit safety were ‘misplaced’… then three claimants died

By John Pring on 8th August 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP told PM’s civil servants fears about universal credit safety were ‘misplaced’… then three claimants died
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Three deaths of disabled people who took their own lives were linked to flaws within the universal credit system, despite the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) previously dismissing fears about the safety of “vulnerable” claimants as “misplaced”. A report by […]

Crowdfunder success means every MP will receive copy of book that lays bare decades of DWP violence

By John Pring on 8th August 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Crowdfunder success means every MP will receive copy of book that lays bare decades of DWP violence
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Thanks to the success of a crowdfunding initiative, every MP is to receive a copy of a book that investigates how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) caused countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants over the last 14 years. Organisers […]

Disabled tribunal member takes step towards legal action against DWP over years of ‘persecution’

By John Pring on 8th August 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled tribunal member takes step towards legal action against DWP over years of ‘persecution’
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A disabled woman who sits on a social security tribunal is set to take legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for breaching the Human Rights Act, after years of “persecution” over her benefits. Katherine*, who continues to […]

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