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Benefits and Poverty

TUC piles pressure on Labour with vote to scrap universal credit

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

TUC piles pressure on Labour with vote to scrap universal credit
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Trade unions have voted at their annual congress to call on the Labour party to shift its stance on universal credit and promise to scrap the controversial benefit system. The annual TUC Congress approved a motion last week that had already […]

Hundreds of thousands more PIP claimants would challenge awards… if they could

By John Pring on 13th September 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Hundreds of thousands more PIP claimants would challenge awards… if they could
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New government research shows that hundreds of thousands more claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) would have taken further steps to challenge the results of their claims if the system had been less stressful and more accessible. The research, carried out […]

DWP breaks law over secret reports on universal credit deaths

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP breaks law over secret reports on universal credit deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release evidence that would show how many secret reports it has compiled into the deaths of claimants of its new universal credit, in a fresh breach of freedom of information laws. […]

DWP facing court over claimant’s universal credit ‘fit for work injustice’

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP facing court over claimant’s universal credit ‘fit for work injustice’
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A disabled man who was unfairly found “fit for work”, and then saw his benefits slashed by almost £180 per month after he was forced onto the government’s new universal credit benefit system, is seeking justice in the high court. It […]

Disability charity’s appointment of Unum boss as new chair ‘is truly disgraceful’

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability charity’s appointment of Unum boss as new chair ‘is truly disgraceful’
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A disability charity’s decision to choose as its new chair the head of a company closely linked with the government’s hated “fitness for work” test has been branded “a betrayal” of disabled people and “a truly disgraceful appointment”. United Response, which […]

DWP repeatedly breaches FoI laws ‘in bid to hide secret jobcentre reports’

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP repeatedly breaches FoI laws ‘in bid to hide secret jobcentre reports’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly breached freedom of information laws in an apparent attempt to prevent the release of secret reports written by disabled people recruited to work within its jobcentres. Two years ago, DWP published a […]

DWP figures provide fresh evidence to explain PIP claim rejections

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures provide fresh evidence to explain PIP claim rejections
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New figures show that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants are questioning only a tiny proportion of the benefit assessment reports written by discredited government contractors Atos and Capita. Campaigners have been trying for months to secure evidence that […]

DWP agrees to pay thousands to disabled duo in universal credit court case

By John Pring on 2nd August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP agrees to pay thousands to disabled duo in universal credit court case
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed to pay compensation to two disabled men who saw their benefits drastically reduced when they were forced onto the new universal credit. The high court had ruled in June that DWP […]

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Two opposition parties are writing urgent letters to work and pensions secretary Esther McVey – while a third is demanding an investigation – about a possible cover-up over documents linking the “fitness for work” test with the deaths of benefit claimants. […]

Watchdog’s ‘issues of concern’ over regulator’s treatment of PIP complaints

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog’s ‘issues of concern’ over regulator’s treatment of PIP complaints
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A regulator has been told there are “issues of concern” about the way it deals with complaints against health and care professionals, including those who write dishonest benefit assessment reports. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) agreed in January to look at […]

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