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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 […]

Coffey’s minimal release of secret deaths info suggests key DWP failings

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

Coffey’s minimal release of secret deaths info suggests key DWP failings
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Information released by work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey suggests that failings within the universal credit, personal independence payment and employment and support allowance systems have all contributed to the deaths of benefit claimants in the last three years. In a […]

MPs who refused to quiz minister on benefit deaths ‘have failed disabled people’

By John Pring on 21st July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs who refused to quiz minister on benefit deaths ‘have failed disabled people’
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MPs have refused to quiz the disability minister about new research that brings together more than 30 years of evidence linking her department with the deaths of countless disabled benefit claimants. The draft version of the Deaths by Welfare timeline features more […]

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence
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Political parties implicated in decades of government failings that have led to the deaths of countless disabled benefit claimants have given a half-hearted welcome to new research that brings together more than 30 years of evidence proving those links. The draft […]

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle
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The family of a disabled man who took his own life nine years ago after being unfairly found fit for work have welcomed a “small but significant” tribunal ruling that has once again highlighted the “cruelty” of the Department for Work […]

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” research that linked the work capability assessment with 600 suicides in just three years, MPs have been told. The failure is just the latest evidence to […]

DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
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The government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, MPs have been told by leading academics. Professor Ben Barr, from the University of Liverpool, and Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger, from the University of […]

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths
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The government has branded Disability News Service (DNS) “vexatious” for attempting to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain key details from more than 90 secret reviews into deaths and other serious incidents involving benefit claimants. DNS asked the Department […]

Trio of disabled women say EHRC has failed them and other families over benefit deaths

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

Trio of disabled women say EHRC has failed them and other families over benefit deaths
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Three disabled women who lost relatives because of the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have accused the equality watchdog of failing them and countless other families. They spoke out this week after the Equality and Human Rights […]

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths
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The equality watchdog has been accused of failing disabled people and becoming “an extension of government”, after dropping any attempt to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account for its links to countless deaths of benefit claimants. In […]

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