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Benefits and Poverty

DWP yet to sign claimant deaths legal agreement with watchdog

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP yet to sign claimant deaths legal agreement with watchdog
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has yet to agree to sign a legal agreement with the equality watchdog, after “serious concerns” were raised about its treatment of disabled people claiming benefits. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced […]

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” research that linked the work capability assessment with 600 suicides in just three years, MPs have been told. The failure is just the latest evidence to […]

DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
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The government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, MPs have been told by leading academics. Professor Ben Barr, from the University of Liverpool, and Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger, from the University of […]

Government eases concerns over cost-of-living payment care charge fears

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government eases concerns over cost-of-living payment care charge fears
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The government has eased concerns that cost-of-living support for hundreds of thousands of disabled people in England announced by the Treasury last month – which should be worth hundreds of pounds – could have been snatched back by local authorities. Chancellor […]

MPs ask Coffey why she is hiding nine secret DWP reports

By John Pring on 16th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs ask Coffey why she is hiding nine secret DWP reports
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MPs have asked the work and pensions secretary to justify her refusal to release nine potentially embarrassing reports about her department’s work, at least four of which focus on disabled claimants of benefits. Stephen Timms, chair of the Commons work and […]

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’

By John Pring on 9th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’
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A severely distressed disabled man who repeatedly warned Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff that his life was at risk says they refused to take action to protect him, breaching their own guidance on suicidal benefit claimants. Finn Jaradd says […]

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will each miss out on £650 in crucial support, because of the government’s failure to target new cost-of-living funding at some of the groups most in need, disabled campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations said […]

Knock-on effects of PIP assessment backlog ‘show ministers must get a grip’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Knock-on effects of PIP assessment backlog ‘show ministers must get a grip’
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Backlogs in the disability benefit assessment system are having significant knock-on effects on disabled people’s ability to live independently, new evidence has shown. It is showing how lengthy delays in reviewing people’s personal independence payment (PIP) claims are having a substantial […]

Fears over impact of DWP’s ‘horrific’ and ‘sinister’ anti-fraud plan

By John Pring on 26th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Fears over impact of DWP’s ‘horrific’ and ‘sinister’ anti-fraud plan
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“Horrific” and “sinister” plans to give the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sweeping new powers to investigate benefit claimants could have a serious impact on disabled people’s physical and mental health, activists have warned. Just as the social security cuts […]

Company linked to death of PIP claimant gives itself ‘seven or eight out of 10’

By John Pring on 26th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Company linked to death of PIP claimant gives itself ‘seven or eight out of 10’
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The boss of a private sector contractor has told MPs that he gives his company a mark of seven or eight out of ten for its performance in carrying out disability benefit assessments, despite it being closely linked to the death […]

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