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Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths

By John Pring on 24th March 2016 Category: Crime

Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths
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Disabled activists are calling for Iain Duncan Smith to face a criminal investigation over his refusal to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, which led to “countless deaths” over the last six years. They […]

Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details

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

Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details
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A tribunal judge has hinted that he may order the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital information from 49 secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of benefit claimants. Judge Andrew Bartlett QC was chairing a three-person […]

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 […]

‘Damning’ research on WCA deaths is ‘timely’ reminder of government’s shame

By John Pring on 20th November 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Damning’ research on WCA deaths is ‘timely’ reminder of government’s shame
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Disabled activists say government-funded research, which concludes that the programme to reassess people on incapacity benefit through the work capability assessment (WCA) was linked to 590 suicides in just three years, is both “damning” and “timely”. Campaigners, doctors and psychiatrists have […]

Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Chief coroner silent over WCA ‘future deaths’ reports

By John Pring on 25th September 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Chief coroner silent over WCA ‘future deaths’ reports
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The chief coroner of England and Wales has refused to act after it emerged that only one coroner has written an official report warning that lives could be put at risk by the government’s “fitness for work” test. Disability News Service […]

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out 60 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths in less than three years, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. DWP released the figures in response to a series of Freedom of Information Act […]

DWP’s confession: ‘We ignore benefit-related deaths’

By John Pring on 26th September 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

DWP’s confession: ‘We ignore benefit-related deaths’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted making no effort to collect – or learn the lessons from – reports of disabled people whose deaths have been linked to the withdrawal or non-payment of disability benefits. The admission came […]

Coroner: DWP ‘must act’ after it told severely ill patient to leave hospital to make claim

By John Pring on 6th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner: DWP ‘must act’ after it told severely ill patient to leave hospital to make claim
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A coroner has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make urgent policy changes, after it ordered a disabled patient to leave hospital to visit a jobcentre despite being severely ill with a condition that later killed him. […]

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal

By John Pring on 4th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to make a second attempt to secure permission to appeal against a high court ruling. Joy Dove is fighting to secure a second […]

Disability minister says addressing DWP’s legacy of distrust and distress ‘is a big priority’

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Politics

Disability minister says addressing DWP’s legacy of distrust and distress ‘is a big priority’
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The new minister for disabled people has said it is a “big priority” for her to address the legacy of distress and distrust created by a decade of deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the actions of her […]

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