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Benefits and Poverty

DWP contractors carry out secret tricks on disabled claimants, Tory MP has been told

By John Pring on 21st July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP contractors carry out secret tricks on disabled claimants, Tory MP has been told
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Private sector contractors are deliberately putting lifts out of order and removing cups from beside water coolers as part of “covert” attempts to trick disabled people waiting to be assessed for their benefits, MPs have been told. Conservative MP Dr Ben […]

It’s just too much effort to produce universal credit WCA stats, says minister

By John Pring on 21st July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

It’s just too much effort to produce universal credit WCA stats, says minister
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The minister for disabled people has told MPs it is too expensive and too much effort to produce statistics about key parts of an assessment system linked to hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths over the last decade. Chloe Smith told […]

Secret reviews into DWP deaths more than double in three years

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret reviews into DWP deaths more than double in three years
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New figures show how the number of secret reviews into deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has more than doubled over the last three years. They show how […]

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence
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Political parties implicated in decades of government failings that have led to the deaths of countless disabled benefit claimants have given a half-hearted welcome to new research that brings together more than 30 years of evidence proving those links. The draft […]

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle
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The family of a disabled man who took his own life nine years ago after being unfairly found fit for work have welcomed a “small but significant” tribunal ruling that has once again highlighted the “cruelty” of the Department for Work […]

DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed new research that for the first time brings together more than 30 years of evidence that links its systemic failings with the deaths of countless disabled claimants of benefits. The Deaths by […]

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 […]

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