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PIP investigation: MPs to consider assessment dishonesty claims

By John Pring on 2nd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: MPs to consider assessment dishonesty claims
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An influential committee of MPs is to examine claims of widespread dishonesty by healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of disability benefit claimants. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) published the results of a two-month investigation that suggested a serious, […]

PIP investigation: Welfare expert says two-thirds of appeals involve lying assessors

By John Pring on 2nd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Welfare expert says two-thirds of appeals involve lying assessors
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Welfare rights experts have produced evidence that backs up the findings of a Disability News Service (DNS) investigation into the lies told by healthcare professionals in their disability benefit assessment reports. Last week, the two-month investigation revealed how assessors working for […]

PIP investigation: ‘Lie after lie after lie’

By John Pring on 2nd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: ‘Lie after lie after lie’
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Many more disabled people have come forward to describe how the healthcare professionals who assessed them for the government’s new disability benefit lied in the reports they compiled. Their evidence further confirms the results of a two-month Disability News Service (DNS) […]

PIP INVESTIGATION: Assessment reports show widespread dishonesty by nurses

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP INVESTIGATION: Assessment reports show widespread dishonesty by nurses
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Healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of benefit claimants have lied, ignored written evidence and dishonestly reported the results of physical examinations, according to a two-month Disability News Service (DNS) investigation. The investigation has compiled evidence from more than 20 […]

PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’
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Labour, the Green party and the Liberal Democrats have called for the government to act on claims of widespread dishonesty by the medical professionals paid to compile benefits assessment reports, following a two-month investigation by Disability News Service (DNS). The three […]

Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants

By John Pring on 19th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants
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Fresh evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to allow benefit claimants to communicate via email, despite its claims that it allows disabled people with “valid reasons” to do so. Last week, one disabled PIP […]

May’s mental health speech ‘is smokescreen to hide damage of welfare reform’

By John Pring on 12th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

May’s mental health speech ‘is smokescreen to hide damage of welfare reform’
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The prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy, after making a high-profile series of announcements on the “burning injustices” facing people in mental distress, despite research that has linked her own government’s welfare reforms with hundreds of suicides. Theresa May used […]

PIP claimant set to take DWP to court over refusal to allow him to use email

By John Pring on 12th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP claimant set to take DWP to court over refusal to allow him to use email
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A disabled benefit claimant is set to take the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court over its refusal to allow him to communicate with its civil servants via email. Mark Lucas is facing a reassessment of his personal independence […]

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 5th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Three opposition parties have called for an independent inquiry into claims that ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their “fitness for work” test. The apparent cover-up was […]

Anger over ‘welfare reform’ CBEs for DWP directors

By John Pring on 5th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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The decision to honour 10 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants in the new year honours list has been greeted with anger and disbelief by disabled campaigners. The awards were made at the end of a year in which […]

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