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DWP boss misleads MPs over £100 million plan to prevent deaths

By John Pring on 12th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP boss misleads MPs over £100 million plan to prevent deaths
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The civil servant who leads the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has misled MPs about its failure to implement a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from the deaths of benefit claimants. Peter Schofield, DWP’s permanent secretary, […]

DWP’s failure to sign discrimination agreement ‘is totally unacceptable’

By John Pring on 12th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s failure to sign discrimination agreement ‘is totally unacceptable’
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The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told that the continuing failure to sign a legal agreement that would force his department to improve its treatment of disabled claimants is “totally unacceptable”. It […]

DWP fights watchdog ruling that it must release secret benefit deaths reviews

By John Pring on 12th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP fights watchdog ruling that it must release secret benefit deaths reviews
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release up to 30 redacted reports into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite being told to do so by the information commissioner. Following the commissioner’s decision, ministers have appealed to the […]

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules
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A regulator has sided with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by ruling that an attempt by Disability News Service (DNS) to obtain more than 90 secret reviews into deaths linked to DWP’s actions was “vexatious”. Information commissioner John Edwards […]

Concern after DWP admits it has not signed benefit deaths legal agreement

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern after DWP admits it has not signed benefit deaths legal agreement
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The equality watchdog has been told to take “urgent” action over its failure to persuade the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to sign a legally-binding agreement that would force it to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The Equality […]

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented the release of secret reports into the deaths of at least 20 benefit claimants, the information commissioner has ruled. The commissioner, John Edwards, has found that DWP breached the Freedom of Information […]

Disabled man’s body found six months after DWP cut off his benefits

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled man’s body found six months after DWP cut off his benefits
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The body of a disabled man was discovered by police officers in his derelict home six months after his benefits were cut off by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), a report has revealed. In circumstances similar to those of […]

DWP hounded disabled woman for years before her ‘starvation’ death, papers show

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hounded disabled woman for years before her ‘starvation’ death, papers show
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A disabled woman whose body was found in her flat months after all her benefits had been removed had been hounded for years by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and repeatedly failed by other public bodies, documents have shown. […]

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister
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Three disabled women who lost relatives because of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings have expressed their shock and anger at the appointment of Therese Coffey as the new deputy prime minister. Coffey, who was also appointed health and social care […]

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’

By John Pring on 28th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’
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Campaigners who spent years exposing the deaths of countless benefit claimants have spoken this week of the “abysmal failure” of MPs who refused to question the minister for disabled people about research linking her government with those tragedies. The draft version […]

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