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Benefits and Poverty

Six years on, and still no DWP progress on ‘further medical evidence’

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Six years on, and still no DWP progress on ‘further medical evidence’
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Work and pensions ministers have been accused of another attempt to avoid improving the safety of its “fitness for work” test for benefit claimants with mental health conditions. A year after ministers told a tribunal – following a lengthy judicial review […]

Disabled peers lead fresh efforts to halt ‘offensive’ WRAG cut

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled peers lead fresh efforts to halt ‘offensive’ WRAG cut
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Three disabled peers have led fresh efforts to halt government plans to cut £1, 500 a year from hundreds of thousands of claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. The House of Lords overwhelmingly passed an amendment – later rejected by MPs* – […]

Sister hopes campaign for benefit sanction inquest will prevent further deaths

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sister hopes campaign for benefit sanction inquest will prevent further deaths
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The sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned has launched a campaign to persuade the attorney general to order an inquest into his death. Gill Thompson needs to raise £10, 000 to instruct lawyers, apply for […]

DWP ‘ruined me’ with ‘victimisation’, says disabled benefit claimant

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘ruined me’ with ‘victimisation’, says disabled benefit claimant
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A disabled man has accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of victimising him and ruining his life after it tried – and failed – to prosecute him for benefit fraud, despite letters from medical professionals confirming his serious medical […]

DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information
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Disability News Service (DNS) will this week ask a tribunal to require the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish information about secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. DNS has been trying since August […]

Duncan Smith and Grayling silent over links to WCA suicide reports

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Duncan Smith and Grayling silent over links to WCA suicide reports
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Ministers and senior civil servants are refusing to say if they approved documents drawn up following the suicides of two disabled men that were connected to flaws in the government’s “fitness for work” test. Last week, the Department for Work and […]

Stephen Carré scandal: DWP ‘finds’ draft report that was never sent to coroner  

By John Pring on 18th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Stephen Carré scandal: DWP ‘finds’ draft report that was never sent to coroner  
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unearthed a “draft” report that ministers failed to send to a coroner six years ago, following concerns he raised about a suicide linked to flaws in the “fitness for work” test. The draft […]

New survey reveals PIP’s poor satisfaction levels

By John Pring on 18th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New survey reveals PIP’s poor satisfaction levels
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Levels of satisfaction among claimants of the government’s new disability benefit are far lower than for other benefits, according to new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures. The survey found that only two-thirds (68 per cent) of personal independence payment […]

Maximus ‘has falsified results of fitness for work tests’, says MP

By John Pring on 11th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Maximus ‘has falsified results of fitness for work tests’, says MP
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The discredited US outsourcing giant contracted to carry out “fitness for work” tests on behalf of the government has been accused by an MP of “falsifying” the results of assessments. Labour MP Louise Haigh attacked the track record, ethics and even […]

Anger at Osborne’s working-age benefits freeze

By John Pring on 11th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger at Osborne’s working-age benefits freeze
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Campaigners say the government’s decision to enforce a freeze on working-age benefits from April – even though older people will see their pensions increase by 2.9 per cent – will further entrench disability poverty. The annual “uprating” of working-age benefit rates […]

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‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

Silence from MP sister of Rachel Reeves over suicide linked to PIP flaws, just as government was seeking cuts

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Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims

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