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Benefits and Poverty

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel

By John Pring on 14th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel
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A disabled woman has handed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a petition of more than 200,000 names in a bid to stop companies forcing claimants to travel long distances to attend face-to-face benefit assessments. Claudette Lawrence only launched the […]

Reaction to Rudd’s reforms: Tinkering, crumbs and fears of a Trojan horse for cuts

By John Pring on 7th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Reaction to Rudd’s reforms: Tinkering, crumbs and fears of a Trojan horse for cuts
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about a series of reforms to the disability benefits assessment system announced by work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd. Rudd secured broadly positive coverage of her reforms from the mainstream media this week, […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP apologises, but no word on preventing future deaths

By John Pring on 7th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: DWP apologises, but no word on preventing future deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has apologised for a series of failings made in the weeks leading to the death of a disabled mother-of-nine, but it has failed to explain how it will prevent further tragedies in the future. […]

DWP failed for years to meet legal duties on accessible information, says judge

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

DWP failed for years to meet legal duties on accessible information, says judge
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed for years to comply with its legal duties under the Equality Act by refusing to provide an accessible way for many disabled people to communicate with its staff about their benefits, a judge […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP ignored five ‘safeguarding’ chances before WCA suicide

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

Jodey Whiting: DWP ignored five ‘safeguarding’ chances before WCA suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed five times to follow its own safeguarding rules in the weeks leading up to the suicide of a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress, an independent investigation has found. The […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP continued to phone woman who took her own life, inquiry finds

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

Jodey Whiting: DWP continued to phone woman who took her own life, inquiry finds
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) continued to phone and write to a disabled woman who had taken her own life after having her benefits stopped, an independent investigation has found. The report by the Independent Case Examiner (ICE), Joanna […]

MPs hear of ways to save benefit claimants from harm… or even death

By John Pring on 14th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs hear of ways to save benefit claimants from harm… or even death
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Disabled activists and shadow ministers at a parliamentary meeting have been told of ways they could help to reduce the appalling damage caused by the government’s hated “fitness for work” assessment and other social security cuts and reforms. Academics, researchers, politicians […]

Inquiry call after ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘admits it has no safeguarding policy’

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Inquiry call after ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘admits it has no safeguarding policy’
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The government’s “fitness for work” contractor appears to have no written policy on how to protect the safety of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits, despite years of evidence linking the assessment with deaths and serious harm. Only last week, it emerged […]

‘Shocking’ PIP death figures ‘show assessment process is unfit for purpose’

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Shocking’ PIP death figures ‘show assessment process is unfit for purpose’
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About 1,600 working-age disabled people are dying every year after having their claim for disability benefits rejected, the government has been forced to admit. The Department for Work and Pensions figures (DWP) reveal that 7,990 disabled people who lodged a claim […]

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate
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The minister for disabled people has been forced to apologise to MPs after Disability News Service (DNS) caught her misleading MPs about support for disabled people for the fourth time in less than a year. The misleading comments by Sarah Newton […]

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