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EHRC failed to consult its own disabled advisers before snubbing DWP deaths probe

By John Pring on 2nd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

EHRC failed to consult its own disabled advisers before snubbing DWP deaths probe
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The equality watchdog failed to consult its own committee of disabled advisers before deciding not to investigate deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It came as disabled activists and relatives of […]

Influential Labour MP fails four times to put benefit deaths questions to DWP

By John Pring on 2nd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Influential Labour MP fails four times to put benefit deaths questions to DWP
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The Labour chair of the Commons committee tasked with holding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account is refusing to question its attempts to cover up links between its actions and the deaths of benefit claimants. Disability News Service […]

Watchdog snubs call for probe into DWP deaths, after delay of more than a year

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog snubs call for probe into DWP deaths, after delay of more than a year
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The equality watchdog has rejected calls for it to investigate deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), more than a year after an MP asked it to launch an inquiry. Labour’s Debbie Abrahams, a former shadow work and […]

Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’
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The government’s continuing failure to allow benefit appeals to be heard via video conferencing is discriminating against disabled claimants, say welfare rights experts. Many disabled people are being forced to ask for their tribunals to be postponed, because they are only […]

Labour’s new DWP shadow attacked for ‘toxic’ comments on social security

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s new DWP shadow attacked for ‘toxic’ comments on social security
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Labour’s new shadow work and pensions secretary is facing anger from disabled activists and politicians after he said that people who “put more in” to the social security system should “get more out of it” if they lose their jobs. Among […]

Round-up: Letter to DWP on £20 uprating, ILF survey… and PIP telephone assessments

By John Pring on 4th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Round-up: Letter to DWP on £20 uprating, ILF survey… and PIP telephone assessments
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The government’s own benefits advisers have told ministers that it is “increasingly untenable” for them to refuse to pay those on out-of-work disability benefits the temporary increase of £20 a week being paid to claimants of universal credit. The increase in […]

Sanction threats are likely to harm health of WRAG claimants, says research

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sanction threats are likely to harm health of WRAG claimants, says research
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Trying to force disabled people into work by threatening to sanction their benefits is ineffective and likely to harm their health, and even put their lives at risk, according to research co-produced with a disabled people’s organisation. The fear instilled by […]

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports
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The government is facing calls to publish two coroners’ reports that link the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) with the deaths of benefit claimants. New information shows that the missing reports were written by coroners in 2015 and 2016, but […]

Errol Graham: Legal challenge exposes years of DWP dishonesty and broken promises

By John Pring on 7th May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: Legal challenge exposes years of DWP dishonesty and broken promises
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A new legal challenge by the family of a man who starved to death after his out-of-work disability benefits were wrongly removed has exposed years of dishonesty, failings and broken promises by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The family […]

Coronavirus: Disabled benefit claimants tell MPs how crisis has hit them hard

By John Pring on 30th April 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Disabled benefit claimants tell MPs how crisis has hit them hard
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Disabled people have told MPs how they have been hit particularly hard by the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the benefits system. The Commons work and pensions committee carried out a survey of benefit claimants as part of an inquiry […]

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