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The Labour government risks alienating voters if it ignores new research which shows the public strongly oppose cuts to spending on disability benefits, disabled people’s organisations warned the prime minister this week. Disabled activists are now set to brief MPs about […]
Political parties that have spent years calling for cuts to spending on disabled people’s benefits have stayed silent in response to new research which shows the public have ignored their rhetoric and strongly oppose any such reductions. The research shows that […]
Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new survey. The results of the survey – co-designed with disabled people – show that only […]
The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gaming the system”. Robert Jenrick ignored government figures that […]
A Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her requests for help, after a constituent threatened with sanctions over her universal credit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP […]
MPs have failed to question a minister on the continuing failure to introduce a legal duty for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “safeguard” people who receive state benefits. The evidence session was reviewing progress by the department since […]
New figures have revealed that 50 secret investigations into the deaths of benefit claimants led to internal calls for improvements within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last year. Another 25 DWP investigations into cases of claimants suffering serious harm […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted terminating the claims of more than 1,200 disabled people who failed to engage with “migrating” onto universal credit, raising fresh fears over the safety of the process. The claims were stopped despite […]
A flagship government scheme that links NHS therapy to employment advice is pushing disabled people who are in mental distress and not in work off the benefits that provide them with a vital income lifeline, new official research suggests. The study – […]
New figures have sparked “serious concern” about the failure of coroners across England and Wales to seek evidence from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following deaths of benefit claimants. The figures show that, in just two years, DWP provided […]