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 […]
Benefits and Poverty
It’s just too much effort to produce universal credit WCA stats, says minister
Secret reviews into DWP deaths more than double in three years
Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence
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DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths
DWP yet to sign claimant deaths legal agreement with watchdog
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
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 […]