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Plans to slash spending on disabled people’s social security are in disarray, after government figures appeared to show that its new personal independence payment (PIP) is easier to claim than disability living allowance (DLA), the benefit it is replacing. Chancellor George […]
Two grandparents who care for their disabled grandson and have been hit by the “bedroom tax” are to continue their fight for justice, despite a high court defeat. Paul and Susan Rutherford, who are both disabled, care for 14-year-old Warren in […]
The government and its contractor Atos Healthcare have strongly denied claims by an alleged whistleblower that civil servants ordered assessors to make it harder for disabled people to claim the coalition’s new disability benefit. Scores of disabled campaigners saw an email […]
Disabled activists have accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of “deplorable” behaviour, after it tried – and failed – to delay legal attempts to reduce the discriminatory impact of its controversial “fitness for work” test. A tribunal decided this […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to interview two whistleblowers who made serious allegations of fraud by a private sector provider within the government’s specialist work programme for disabled people. DWP supposedly launched an investigation […]
The former government adviser who carried out three independent reviews of the controversial work capability assessment (WCA) has told MPs that the test is “not working” and must be made more “humane”. Professor Malcolm Harrington also made a string of damaging […]
A comedian and activist has accused the government of forcing her and other disabled people to beg for their basic human rights. Francesca Martinez was speaking during a debate on the impact of government cuts on disabled people, held in a […]
A disabled man with cancer has been forced to wait more than a year for a decision on his claim for the coalition’s new disability benefit, thanks to a “catalogue of incompetence” by the company paid to assess him. Disability News […]
A disabled man with cancer has been forced to wait more than a year for a decision on his claim for the coalition’s new disability benefit, thanks to a “catalogue of incompetence” by the company paid to assess him. Disability News […]
The government’s own benefits advisers have called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess the overall impact of its far-reaching programme of welfare reforms on disabled people, a task ministers have repeatedly claimed is impossible. A study published […]