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The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MPs. Some politicians and journalists – although not Disability News […]
Labour ministers have refused to release a “briefing pack” which would reveal the thoughts of civil servants on repeated calls for an inquiry into hundreds, and probably thousands, of benefit-related deaths. Disabled activists, families of deceased claimants and MPs have been […]
The proportion of disabled people who are successful in their claim for the main disability benefit has plunged by nearly a quarter since Labour came to power two years ago, new figures have revealed. The figures, released by the Department for […]
The Conservatives will use a new review of disability benefits to justify cuts to spending on social security of even more than the £23 billion a year they have already announced, their work and pensions spokesperson announced this week. In a […]
Disabled people are being hurt, harmed and killed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at a scale that overshadows every other scandal in British society in recent decades, MPs have been told. Disabled activist Rick Burgess warned MPs on […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is researching how it supports neurodivergent claimants of universal credit (UC), months after an autistic man took his own life after becoming increasingly distressed by the fallout from the UC migration process. Disability News […]
The government has finally agreed to provide some funding for a few disabled people’s organisations to engage with its personal independence payment (PIP) review, but has given them only about a month to organise events and submit their evidence. The Department […]
An autistic circus skills teacher took his own life after becoming increasingly distressed by the bureaucratic chaos caused by his “migration” to universal credit, which led to him facing a new £500 monthly charge for his social care package. David Panther […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is secretly testing sweeping new rules – described as a “recipe for disaster” – on disability benefit assessments, which will reduce the influence of healthcare professionals and hand greater responsibility to civil servants. The […]
The disability minister has been asked why he appears to have provided no funding for a plan to increase engagement among disabled people and their organisations with his review of the personal independence payment (PIP) system. Sir Stephen Timms announced plans […]