There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the way the government assesses eligibility for a key disability benefit, after claimants with mental health conditions described how they had been asked in assessments why they had not taken their own lives. […]
Benefits and Poverty
Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths
PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws
PIP investigation: Capita made me a scapegoat, says disgraced assessor
PIP claimant who took her own life had written about unfair assessment report
Allowing DWP barristers to sit as benefits appeal judges ‘is unquestionably wrong’
A system that allows barristers who are paid by DWP to prosecute benefit fraud cases to also sit as judges on tribunals that decide social security appeals is “unquestionably wrong” and a “direct conflict of interest”, say welfare rights experts. The […]