Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic aimed at reducing the number of disabled people claiming benefits, say campaigners. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally […]
Benefits and Poverty
‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’
The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than a decade is riddled with inconsistencies, misleading statements and “unevidenced” claims, according to three disabled academics. A new article by Professor Tom Shakespeare and Professor […]
DWP ‘puts child abuse trial at risk’ by insisting on PIP reassessment
TUC Disabled Workers Conference: PIP U-turn ‘could be turning-point’ in fightback
How a single word shows DWP has finally owned up on benefit deaths
Ministers refuse to say if they implemented 10 measures to save lives
PIP system crashes again… twice… but DWP still blames ‘technical glitches’
The computer system used for new personal independence payment (PIP) claims has crashed twice in a week, just days after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insisted it was “working as it should”. On both occasions, last Wednesday (11 May) […]