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DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out 60 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths in less than three years, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. DWP released the figures in response to a series of Freedom of Information Act […]

No explanation from ministers for soaring ESA sanctions

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

No explanation from ministers for soaring ESA sanctions
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Ministers have again refused to offer any explanation for the soaring use of sanctions against claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. Figures published this week by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that the number of decisions to sanction claimants […]

Minimal Maximus bid ‘could scupper fitness for work improvements’

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Minimal Maximus bid ‘could scupper fitness for work improvements’
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New doubts have surfaced about the ability of a controversial US company to make improvements to the “fitness for work” assessment system, after it appears to have won the contract by drastically under-cutting its competitor. The fight to take over the […]

Anger over user-led charity’s links with insurance industry

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Anger over user-led charity’s links with insurance industry
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A leading national disabled people’s organisation is facing angry criticism from activists over its links with the disability insurance industry. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week that Disability Rights UK (DR UK) was under fire for agreeing to work with […]

ESA claimants set for leap ‘from frying-pan into fire’ as Maximus wins WCA contract

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

ESA claimants set for leap ‘from frying-pan into fire’ as Maximus wins WCA contract
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The government has sparked fury after appointing a US company with a lengthy record of discrimination, incompetence and alleged fraud to take over delivery of its controversial “fitness for work” tests from the much-criticised Atos Healthcare. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed […]

National DPO criticised over Maximus ‘fitness for work’ agreement

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

National DPO criticised over Maximus ‘fitness for work’ agreement
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A national disabled people’s organisation has defended its decision to agree to work with the controversial US company handed a government contract to assess disabled people’s “fitness for work”. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is set to provide disability equality training […]

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers
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The government has resorted to asking employers to move Deaf members of staff to jobs that require less use of interpreters, according to campaigners protesting about the coalition’s changes and cuts to the troubled Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Members of […]

Access to Work crisis: Another Deaf leader speaks out

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Another Deaf leader speaks out
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Another leading Deaf figure has come forward to describe the damage the government’s botched Access to Work (AtW) changes have caused to his career. Last week, Jenny Sealey, chief executive and artistic director of Graeae, described how her AtW support had […]

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms
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The minister for disabled people has apologised to MPs for the government’s botched reforms to a vital employment support programme for disabled people. Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was told by MPs that the changes to Access to […]

Access to Work crisis: Minister is ‘full of hot air’

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Minister is ‘full of hot air’
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A leading Deaf theatre figure has accused the minister for disabled people of being “full of hot air” and ignorant about the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Jenny Sealey, who is chief executive and artistic director of Graeae, and was […]

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