The information watchdog is to investigate the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its refusal to publish secret reviews into 49 benefit-related deaths. The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched the investigation into DWP’s failure to provide information requested by Disability […]
Benefits and Poverty
COMMENT: DWP’s threat to DNS
DWP ‘threatened to dock terminally-ill woman’s benefits’ if she paid for her own funeral
MPs want new benefit deaths watchdog
Campaigners call for next government to ‘cease firing’ on welfare reform
Doctors’ union finally agrees to spread the word on ‘life-saving’ WCA rules
Report finds evidence to back ‘real world’ alternative to ‘toxic’ WCA
A new report has called for the “toxic” work capability assessment (WCA) to be scrapped and replaced with something that paints a more realistic picture of the barriers disabled people face in society. The Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment report, by […]