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More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released figures that suggest that 516,000 claimants across […]
MPs are to launch an inquiry into safeguarding arrangements at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), following countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to its actions and failings over more than a decade. The Commons work and pensions committee […]
Disabled people’s organisations are searching behind the government’s “smoke and mirrors” for evidence to show how disability rights have continued to regress since a UN committee’s ground-breaking report seven years ago. The UK government is set to be examined in public […]
Key digital services used to run the disability benefits system are still being branded “high risk” on accessibility, a year after secret Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reports found scores of its services were failing to comply with regulations. DWP’s […]
Union activists have called for action over discriminatory articles in a national newspaper that “legitimise” hate speech by attacking disabled benefit claimants. Disabled journalists – backed overwhelmingly by fellow union activists – called this week for the press regulator to strengthen […]
Disabled people in Wales have been “systematically” let down by the UK and Welsh governments during the “devastating” cost-of-living crisis, a new report has found. The Barely Surviving report, launched this week by Disability Wales, says many disabled people in Wales […]
The number of disabled people waiting longer than six months to be told whether they have been successful in their claim for a key disability benefit has plummeted over the last year, new figures have shown. Figures obtained by Disability News […]
The Conservative party appears to be considering highly-controversial plans to means-test disability benefits as a way of cutting spending. Disability News Service (DNS) has been told that participants in focus groups have been asked questions about which people “deserve” various benefits […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted to the public spending watchdog that its system of disability benefits assessments is too slow, too expensive and too inaccurate, and too many claimants do not trust how it makes decisions. The […]
Waiting-times faced by disabled people trying to use a benefit enquiry line are even higher than previously thought, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week that the “average speed of answer” for […]