The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sent 80 pages of emails that have been almost entirely blacked out to Disability News Service (DNS), in a bid to avoid complying with its legal duty to release information about DNS editor […]
Benefits and Poverty
EHRC faces questions over failure to act on DWP benefit deaths
Legal letter asks DWP for information on ‘discriminatory’ secret algorithm
Coroner failed to investigate DWP links to death of PIP claimant
Secret DWP report reveals unmet needs of disability benefit claimants
Minister for disabled people ignores calls for inquiry into DWP deaths
Government figures provide mounting evidence of ‘worrying trends’ on PIP delays
Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
A user-led commission has called for a “transformational” reboot of the social security system to replace the current “inadequate, demeaning, inefficient” structure that “deliberately scapegoats” unemployed and disabled people. In its final proposals, following more than three years of work, the Commission […]