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The health and safety watchdog has explained for the first time why it has never investigated the hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last 16 years. […]
A new assessment regime for disability benefits that will reduce the influence of healthcare professionals and hand greater responsibility to civil servants is set to be rolled out across the country before ministers have seen a detailed evaluation of its impact. […]
The Welsh government has raised “significant concerns” about the level of coproduction provided by the ongoing review of personal independence payment (PIP) and has called for an independent, disabled-led review to guide the design of any PIP replacement. The criticism from […]
Horrified disabled activists have called for answers from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it revealed how a staff member accidentally tipped off an abuser that their victim was seeking domestic violence support. The DWP agent appears to have […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to publish details of multiple flaws within its universal credit working-age benefits system that led to deaths and serious harm to claimants. The information came in a policy paper on what […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over its commitment to the safety of benefit claimants after replacing its chief medical adviser with an expert in medicine for older adults. Disability News Service (DNS) understands that Dr Gail […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disability living allowance (DLA) for personal independence payment (PIP). Just months after completing* […]
Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on work and pensions reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks of the sanction-heavy approach he appears to favour. In his first […]
The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has dropped his first hints on how he plans to approach social security reform, while also pledging to “end rough sleeping”, in a speech outside 10 Downing Street. As he took over from Sir Keir […]
Disabled campaigners have welcomed Andy Burnham’s first major policy decision – to temporarily scrap VAT on electricity bills – but say he must do much more to address disability poverty. In his first speech as prime minister, outside No 10 on […]