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Audio recording option set to be introduced for all PIP assessments, says DWP

By John Pring on 18th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Audio recording option set to be introduced for all PIP assessments, says DWP
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed that all disabled people being assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) will be able to have their face-to-face assessments recorded. The promise has come in a letter to the Right to […]

NHS trust, regulator and Atos all apologise over nurse’s dishonest PIP assessment

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

NHS trust, regulator and Atos all apologise over nurse’s dishonest PIP assessment
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An NHS trust, the nursing regulator and a government contractor have all been forced to apologise over their failure to carry out proper investigations into a nurse who dishonestly assessed a disabled teenager’s eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP). The Nursing […]

‘Heartless’ Coffey’s duty of care claim ‘sticks fingers up to benefit death families’

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Heartless’ Coffey’s duty of care claim ‘sticks fingers up to benefit death families’
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Therese Coffey has been accused of “sticking her fingers up” at every family whose relative has died because of the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after she claimed that her department has no “duty of care” to […]

Hundreds dying every year after PIP rejections, and number may even be rising

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Hundreds dying every year after PIP rejections, and number may even be rising
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Hundreds of disabled people are continuing to die every year after having their claims for disability benefits rejected, new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures have revealed. The figures show that, in just two years, 1,700 disabled people died within […]

Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts

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

Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the contracts of three discredited outsourcing giants blamed for much of the discrimination and failings within the disability benefit assessment system.  DWP had been planning to start a contract procurement exercise for […]

Benefit assessment companies ‘have made almost no progress’ on safeguarding

By John Pring on 26th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit assessment companies ‘have made almost no progress’ on safeguarding
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The three companies that carry out disability benefit assessments for the government have made almost no progress in the last year on alerting local authorities to concerns about claimants whose safety is at risk, according to a disabled campaigner. Last year, […]

Tory MP tells minister of jobcentre staff’s ‘grave concern’ over PIP assessors

By John Pring on 19th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory MP tells minister of jobcentre staff’s ‘grave concern’ over PIP assessors
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Jobcentre staff have told a Conservative MP of their “grave concern” about the healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Anthony Mangnall, the MP for Totnes, learned of the concerns […]

Discredited firms poised to rake in more than £1 billion from new PIP contracts

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

Discredited firms poised to rake in more than £1 billion from new PIP contracts
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Ministers are poised to hand more than a billion pounds to discredited private sector outsourcing giants so they can continue to provide disability benefit assessments for another three years. The plans will apparently see a huge rise in spending on the […]

DWP adds to confusion over ‘single assessment’ plans

By John Pring on 5th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP adds to confusion over ‘single assessment’ plans
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has caused confusion after refusing to say if a newly-announced trial will test the idea of merging assessments for its two main disability benefits. Justin Tomlinson (pictured), the minister for disabled people, announced this […]

PIP claimant took his own life after paramedic ‘ignored his pain’ and DWP cut his benefits

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP claimant took his own life after paramedic ‘ignored his pain’ and DWP cut his benefits
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A disabled man took his own life after describing how a paramedic ignored the “sheer amount of pain” he was in during a face-to-face assessment, leading the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to remove his benefits and plunge him into […]

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