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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published its first set of figures that show how many disabled people who receive universal credit are being found fit for work after an assessment. It has taken more than four years […]
The government has made no progress since 2010 in closing the disability employment gap, MPs were told yesterday by academics. Ministers have long bragged about their success in reducing the difference between the proportion of disabled people and non-disabled people in […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running a discriminatory benefit sanctions regime, following the publication of new research. Academic Ben Baumberg Geiger has found that more than 900,000 disabled claimants of the mainstream […]
A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help them find work. They were giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee, as part of its inquiry into the government’s pledge […]