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DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at stopping deaths

By John Pring on 20th June 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at stopping deaths
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are failing in two out of five cases to meet new standards designed to “significantly reduce” the number of deaths of benefit claimants. A survey by the department found its staff did not meet […]

Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on 13th June 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide
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Official documents link two former Conservative work and pensions ministers – including would-be party leader Penny Mordaunt – to a government cover-up of how a disabled man took his own life after being wrongly found fit for work. The email and […]

Concern over scope of EHRC inquiry into ‘unlawful acts’ by work and pensions secretaries 

By John Pring on 23rd May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern over scope of EHRC inquiry into ‘unlawful acts’ by work and pensions secretaries 
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The equality watchdog has finally launched a – limited – investigation into unlawful treatment by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of disabled benefit claimants, including some who died, five years after it was first told to act.   The move […]

DWP admits multiple universal credit failures before disabled woman’s death

By John Pring on 16th May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits multiple universal credit failures before disabled woman’s death
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted missing multiple opportunities to record the “vulnerability” of a disabled woman whose death was later linked by a coroner to failings at the heart of its universal credit benefits system. DWP has […]

Government fraud policy paper ignores coroner’s concerns over review of disabled woman’s universal credit claim

By John Pring on 16th May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government fraud policy paper ignores coroner’s concerns over review of disabled woman’s universal credit claim
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to explain why its new policy paper on benefit fraud has ignored concerns raised by a coroner about a disabled woman who died following a “targeted” review of her universal credit claim. […]

DWP claims it has no written evidence to show why it weakened suicide probe guidance

By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP claims it has no written evidence to show why it weakened suicide probe guidance
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have destroyed all written records that would have shown why it weakened guidance on when to investigate suicides of benefit claimants. DWP previously said it had no documents about the decision that […]

DWP ‘destroyed evidence’ on secret investigations rules, in latest ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 28th March 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘destroyed evidence’ on secret investigations rules, in latest ‘cover-up’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is again facing cover-up allegations after suggesting that it has destroyed reports showing why it weakened guidance on when to investigate suicides of benefit claimants. Disability News Service revealed last month that DWP had […]

DWP’s 14-year history of dismissing coroners’ concerns over benefit claimant deaths

By John Pring on 25th January 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s 14-year history of dismissing coroners’ concerns over benefit claimant deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly dismissed concerns raised by coroners who have investigated the deaths of benefit claimants, in a pattern of behaviour that stretches back 14 years, analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. DNS […]

Why does DWP reject so many requests to hold secret benefit deaths reviews? MP asks

By John Pring on 11th January 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Why does DWP reject so many requests to hold secret benefit deaths reviews? MP asks
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been asked to explain why it is rejecting so many requests from its own civil servants to carry out secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants. DWP’s top civil servant was questioned […]

Equality watchdog told to ‘come clean’ over DWP benefit deaths discussions

By John Pring on 21st December 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Equality watchdog told to ‘come clean’ over DWP benefit deaths discussions
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The equality watchdog has been told to “come clean” over its failure to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account on deaths linked to benefit claims. It is now 20 months since the Equality and Human Rights Commission […]

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