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DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hidden the truth from a coroner about its role in a disabled woman’s suicide, allowing ministers to avoid having to explain how they would prevent more benefit claimants taking their own lives. Helga […]

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped her benefits has called for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the department’s actions. Joy Dove […]

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting
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A coroner has found that the decision of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to wrongly stop a disabled woman’s benefits after a string of safeguarding failings was the “trigger” for her to take her own life. Coroner Clare Bailey […]

Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits
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Disabled union activists repeatedly challenged a Labour minister at a conference this week on the government’s plans to cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits.  There was prolonged applause when one disabled delegate, Mark Anthony Bastiani, from […]

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting
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The disability minister has been accused of a “shocking lack of empathy” after walking past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about government plans to cut disability benefits by billions of pounds. Representatives […]

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts
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Disabled people from across the UK converged on parliament yesterday to challenge their MPs in face-to-face meetings about the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits. Disabled activists travelled from Northern Ireland, from Wales – including a group of Disability Wales members […]

DWP’s unlawful silence on ‘critical friend’ report raises questions over minister’s transparency pledge

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s unlawful silence on ‘critical friend’ report raises questions over minister’s transparency pledge
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unlawfully failed to respond to a request to see a secret paper on the department’s safeguarding failures, casting doubt on a minister’s pledge to open DWP to “public scrutiny”. The “critical friend” paper […]

Kendall refuses to apologise after misleading MPs four times in 23 minutes about PIP cuts

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Kendall refuses to apologise after misleading MPs four times in 23 minutes about PIP cuts
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has refused to apologise after repeatedly misleading MPs by suggesting that her planned cuts of billions of pounds to personal independence payment (PIP) were linked to supporting disabled people into work. On four occasions in […]

DWP must finally act on ‘deficient’ approach to safeguarding with a duty of care, say MPs

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP must finally act on ‘deficient’ approach to safeguarding with a duty of care, say MPs
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A report from MPs today calls on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to introduce a new legal duty for it to safeguard “vulnerable” claimants of benefits, after decades of deaths and other harm linked to its policies and procedures. […]

DWP helped cause mental distress of poverty-stricken benefit claimant who took her own life, says coroner

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP helped cause mental distress of poverty-stricken benefit claimant who took her own life, says coroner
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings contributed to the mental distress of a disabled woman who took her own life after being left with less than three pounds in her bank accounts, a coroner has concluded. An inquest in Stockport […]

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