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Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey Whiting: Mum brands DWP’s petition response ‘a joke’

By John Pring on 11th April 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey Whiting: Mum brands DWP’s petition response ‘a joke’
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The furious mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after repeated safeguarding failings by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has branded DWP’s response to a parliamentary petition set up in her daughter’s name “a joke”. Joy […]

DWP admits destroying report on safety failings in jobcentres

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

DWP admits destroying report on safety failings in jobcentres
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) destroyed a damaging internal report about its failure to ensure the safety of benefit claimants in jobcentres, preventing it being released under freedom of information laws. The report into safeguarding failures in south London […]

Twin backs call for inquiry into DWP failings, four years after brother’s suicide

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

Twin backs call for inquiry into DWP failings, four years after brother’s suicide
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The twin brother of a man who killed himself after being told he was ineligible for two disability benefits has backed calls for an inquiry into links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and deaths of benefit claimants. DWP […]

Number of disabled people in poverty rose by 200,000 in one year… says DWP

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

Number of disabled people in poverty rose by 200,000 in one year… says DWP
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The number of disabled people living in poverty has risen by 200,000 in just one year, government figures have revealed. The new figures [summary results, tables 7a and 7b], published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), show levels of […]

Labour backs all Jodey Whiting petition demands

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

Labour backs all Jodey Whiting petition demands
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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has dispelled any doubts about Labour’s support for the Justice for Jodey Whiting petition, making it clear that she backs every one of its demands. Marsha de Cordova said this week that she backs everything […]

Capita assessor lied about woman’s thoughts of suicide, recording shows

By John Pring on 28th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Capita assessor lied about woman’s thoughts of suicide, recording shows
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A disabled woman who repeatedly spoke about her thoughts of suicide during an assessment had her disability benefits removed after the assessor lied to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about what she had heard, a recording shows. The woman, […]

Jack Carroll: ‘I was treated with derision and suspicion in my PIP assessment’

By John Pring on 28th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jack Carroll: ‘I was treated with derision and suspicion in my PIP assessment’
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Disabled stand-up comic and actor Jack Carroll has blamed the government for creating a “hostile environment” that led to him being treated with “derision and suspicion” during a routine disability benefit assessment. Carroll, whose new film Eaten by Lions is released […]

Jodey Whiting petition: Lib Dems back petition, but doubts over Labour

By John Pring on 28th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting petition: Lib Dems back petition, but doubts over Labour
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A petition calling for an inquiry into deaths linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secured the support of more than 20,000 people in less than two weeks. By this morning (Thursday), more than 22,000 […]

Tomlinson silent after ‘lying’ to MPs about benefits freeze

By John Pring on 28th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tomlinson silent after ‘lying’ to MPs about benefits freeze
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A minister has failed to apologise after he was caught misleading an influential committee of MPs about the impact of his government’s cuts on disabled people. Justin Tomlinson, a former minister for disabled people, was being questioned by the Commons work […]

DWP’s latest confession on safety: ‘We keep no record of complaints linked to deaths’

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s latest confession on safety: ‘We keep no record of complaints linked to deaths’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing fresh allegations of negligence – potentially criminal – after admitting that it keeps no records of how many of the complaints it receives involve the death of a claimant of disability benefits. […]

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