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One in seven of all government decisions to reject claims for personal independence payment (PIP) is eventually overturned, new figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The figures show that, of all the PIP claims rejected by Department for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]