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Mystery deepens as DWP sends DNS 80 pages of redacted emails

By John Pring on 24th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mystery deepens as DWP sends DNS 80 pages of redacted emails
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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 […]

EHRC faces questions over failure to act on DWP benefit deaths

By John Pring on 17th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

EHRC faces questions over failure to act on DWP benefit deaths
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Disabled activists have asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) why it is still failing to act over links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) and […]

Legal letter asks DWP for information on ‘discriminatory’ secret algorithm

By John Pring on 17th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Legal letter asks DWP for information on ‘discriminatory’ secret algorithm
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Disabled campaigners have sent a legal letter to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to question how its use of a secret algorithm* could be discriminating against disabled people in the way it selects claimants to face benefit fraud investigations. […]

Coroner failed to investigate DWP links to death of PIP claimant

By Victoria Noble on 10th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner failed to investigate DWP links to death of PIP claimant
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By Victoria Noble A coroner failed to investigate how the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may have been a factor in a disabled man’s death, despite twice being told that there was evidence of such a link. […]

Secret DWP report reveals unmet needs of disability benefit claimants

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret DWP report reveals unmet needs of disability benefit claimants
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Many disabled people who receive disability benefits have been unable to afford essential living costs such as rent, heating or food, even before the current cost-of-living crisis, according to a report that ministers had fought to keep secret. A watered-down version […]

Minister for disabled people ignores calls for inquiry into DWP deaths

By John Pring on 3rd February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister for disabled people ignores calls for inquiry into DWP deaths
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The minister for disabled people has ignored calls for an inquiry into deaths linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The disabled Labour MP Marsha de Cordova had called for an inquiry this week after telling […]

Government figures provide mounting evidence of ‘worrying trends’ on PIP delays

By John Pring on 3rd February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government figures provide mounting evidence of ‘worrying trends’ on PIP delays
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Growing evidence from figures released by the government suggests disabled people are facing significant and increasing delays and backlogs in the personal independence payment (PIP) system. The figures show striking delays in clearing PIP claims, but also in answering telephone queries […]

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system

By John Pring on 27th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
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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 […]

Government silence over ‘discrimination’ of baby vouchers scheme

By John Pring on 27th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government silence over ‘discrimination’ of baby vouchers scheme
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The government is refusing to say how it justifies the continuing failure to provide vital support to many parents on disability benefits to help with their babies’ nutrition. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week how a disabled mother-of-two had accused […]

Baby vouchers scheme ‘blackmails’ disabled parents onto universal credit

By John Pring on 20th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Baby vouchers scheme ‘blackmails’ disabled parents onto universal credit
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A disabled mother-of-two has accused the government of “financial blackmail” and discriminating against claimants of legacy benefits*, after she was told she could only claim vital financial support for her baby’s nutrition if she agreed to transfer onto universal credit. Allie […]

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