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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 […]

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer

By John Pring on 22nd December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer
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Government ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their much-criticised “fitness for work” assessment, new evidence suggests. A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a Disability […]

‘Absurd’ DWP accused over refusal to publish PIP statistics

By John Pring on 15th December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Absurd’ DWP accused over refusal to publish PIP statistics
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Ministers have been accused of “absurdity and obfuscation” after refusing to explain why they do not publish statistics showing the number of assessments carried out on disabled people applying for their new disability benefit. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]

Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts
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The minister for disabled people is working on urgent plans to cut the living costs faced by disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits, she has told MPs. Penny Mordaunt was responding to warnings of the “human cost” of “bizarre” government plans […]

Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions regime

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions regime
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The government has been heavily-criticised by the public spending watchdog for failing to investigate how its own sanctions regime affects disabled people and other claimants of out-of-work benefits. The National Audit Office (NAO) report says the Department for Work and Pensions […]

Damian Green faces fresh accusations of misleading MPs over disability benefits

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Damian Green faces fresh accusations of misleading MPs over disability benefits
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The work and pensions secretary is facing accusations that he misled MPs about his government’s disability benefit reforms for the second time in a month. Damian Green was responding to an urgent question about last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the […]

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