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Coffey dodges questions from MPs over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 23rd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey dodges questions from MPs over benefit deaths
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has been accused of dodging key questions about links between her department and the suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, during an evidence sessions with MPs. Coffey repeatedly told members of the Commons work […]

DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide of a young woman who had told her work coach that she intended to kill herself. Documents […]

Influential Labour MP fails four times to put benefit deaths questions to DWP

By John Pring on 2nd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Influential Labour MP fails four times to put benefit deaths questions to DWP
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The Labour chair of the Commons committee tasked with holding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account is refusing to question its attempts to cover up links between its actions and the deaths of benefit claimants. Disability News Service […]

Watchdog snubs call for probe into DWP deaths, after delay of more than a year

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog snubs call for probe into DWP deaths, after delay of more than a year
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The equality watchdog has rejected calls for it to investigate deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), more than a year after an MP asked it to launch an inquiry. Labour’s Debbie Abrahams, a former shadow work and […]

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Net closing on government departments that refuse to publish deaths reports
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The government is facing calls to publish two coroners’ reports that link the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) with the deaths of benefit claimants. New information shows that the missing reports were written by coroners in 2015 and 2016, but […]

DWP’s silence over drug misuse death of PIP claimant, despite coroner’s letter

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s silence over drug misuse death of PIP claimant, despite coroner’s letter
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A coroner told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to take urgent steps to prevent further deaths after a disabled man with a history of drug misuse died two months after receiving a huge back-payment in disability benefits. It is […]

RoFA urges watchdog to act over DWP benefit deaths links

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

RoFA urges watchdog to act over DWP benefit deaths links
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Disabled campaigners are pushing the human rights watchdog to take legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its links to the avoidable deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (RoFA) and Disabled People […]

Errol Graham: Coroner urged to act on evidence that DWP hid links to deaths

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: Coroner urged to act on evidence that DWP hid links to deaths
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A coroner who heard the inquest into a man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed has been urged to act on information showing the government failed to pass her evidence linking its actions with other deaths. The […]

The death of Errol Graham: Latest tragedy is linked to 10 years of DWP deaths

By John Pring on 23rd January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

The death of Errol Graham: Latest tragedy is linked to 10 years of DWP deaths
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A disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly stopped is the latest in a long line of fatalities that can be linked to failings and deliberate policy decisions by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This […]

Call for second Jodey Whiting inquest increases pressure for DWP deaths inquiry

By John Pring on 9th January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for second Jodey Whiting inquest increases pressure for DWP deaths inquiry
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A mother who has asked the attorney general for permission to seek a second inquest into her disabled daughter’s suicide says it would boost growing calls for an inquiry into all deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). […]

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