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The UK and Scottish governments have been warned of a humanitarian crisis among disabled people this winter if they fail to take “robust, immediate action” to deal with “devastating and intensifying” levels of disability poverty in Scotland. The warning was issued […]
Activists say the legal system has failed disabled people again, after a court found ministers acted lawfully during the pandemic when they refused to offer people on legacy benefits the same £20-a-week increase given to those on universal credit. Three Court […]
The number of disabled people who have had deductions taken from their benefits because of financial hardship has rocketed in the last year, new government figures have shown. The figures show a 29 per cent rise in the number of homes […]
Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for disability benefits are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won contracts to carry them out. An audit of assessment […]
The civil servant who leads the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has misled MPs about its failure to implement a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from the deaths of benefit claimants. Peter Schofield, DWP’s permanent secretary, […]
The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told that the continuing failure to sign a legal agreement that would force his department to improve its treatment of disabled claimants is “totally unacceptable”. It […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release up to 30 redacted reports into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite being told to do so by the information commissioner. Following the commissioner’s decision, ministers have appealed to the […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has still not decided which companies will be paid a share of £2.8 billion to carry out health and disability benefit assessments, nearly two years after it first published information about the contracts. The […]
Unresolved complaints about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shot up by nearly 70 per cent last year, according to an official report. The Independent Case Examiner (ICE) Joanna Wallace says in her annual report that her office is continuing […]
The “aggressive attitude” on benefit sanctions that was taken by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the coalition years of 2013 to 2015 is “back with a vengeance”, MPs have been warned. A debate on DWP’s policy on benefit […]