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 […]
benefit deaths
Coffey’s minimal release of secret deaths info suggests key DWP failings
MPs who refused to quiz minister on benefit deaths ‘have failed disabled people’
Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence
‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
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 […]