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Benefits and Poverty

‘Reckless or negligent?’ DWP’s decade-long failure to assess universal credit impact

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Reckless or negligent?’ DWP’s decade-long failure to assess universal credit impact
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted an “extraordinary” failure over nearly a decade to carry out any detailed calculations on how universal credit will affect different groups of disabled people. DWP has always admitted there would be winners […]

WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’
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Detailed evidence from disabled people has shown that disability benefit assessment reports are still riddled with distortions, twisted facts and ignorance, say grassroots campaigners. WOWCampaign launched its Assessing the Assessors campaign earlier this year to highlight the continued flaws within the […]

Terminally-ill claimants tell DWP: Change your demeaning rules

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Terminally-ill claimants tell DWP: Change your demeaning rules
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People with terminal illness have explained why ministers must end the “arbitrary and outdated” rules that force many of them through a “demeaning” and “insensitive” benefit assessment process. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rules define a terminal illness as being […]

DWP broke law by destroying safeguarding report, says information commissioner

By John Pring on 27th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP broke law by destroying safeguarding report, says information commissioner
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) broke the law by destroying a damaging internal report about its failure to ensure the safety of benefit claimants in jobcentres, the information commissioner has ruled. The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a decision […]

DWP figures show PIP complaints against Atos and Capita continue to rise

By John Pring on 27th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures show PIP complaints against Atos and Capita continue to rise
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The performance of the two companies carrying out disability benefit assessments on behalf of the government is continuing to deteriorate, according to new figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The DWP figures, released to Disability News Service […]

DWP refuses to release secret benefit death report to mother of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 27th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP refuses to release secret benefit death report to mother of Jodey Whiting
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A senior civil servant has refused to allow the mother of a woman who took her own life – after being repeatedly failed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – to see a secret report into her daughter’s death. […]

Author backs Justice for Jodey and calls for urgent DWP deaths inquiry

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Author backs Justice for Jodey and calls for urgent DWP deaths inquiry
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The disabled author of an acclaimed new investigation into the impact of austerity on disabled people has backed calls for an independent inquiry into links between the government’s policies and the deaths of benefit claimants. Frances Ryan (pictured) said there was […]

Confusion – again – after Labour backtracks on Corbyn pledge to scrap universal credit

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Confusion – again – after Labour backtracks on Corbyn pledge to scrap universal credit
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Labour’s policy on universal credit has again become mired in confusion after its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, promised to scrap the government’s “catastrophic” and “iniquitous” benefit system if his party wins the next general election. Such a move would be seen as […]

OECD figures expose DWP claims of disability spending ‘generosity’

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

OECD figures expose DWP claims of disability spending ‘generosity’
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Repeated claims by the government that the UK is one of the most generous major economies in the world when it comes to spending on disabled people have been exposed as highly misleading by official figures. The Department for Work and […]

Civil servants fail to answer key DWP deaths questions after meeting grieving parents

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Civil servants fail to answer key DWP deaths questions after meeting grieving parents
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Senior Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants have failed to answer key questions about links between the government’s policies and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants, during a face-to-face meeting with grieving parents. Emma Haddad, DWP’s director general for […]

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