Not a single organisation that responded to a consultation by the last government was in favour of replacing a monthly cash payment for disability benefits with vouchers or one-off grants, civil servants have finally admitted. Documents obtained through a freedom of […]
Benefits and Work
PIP phone waiting-times even higher than previously thought, DWP admits
PIP telephone waiting-times continue to rise, DWP figures show
PIP telephone line ‘disaster’, with claimants left waiting more than an hour
Universal credit: ‘Chaos, fear and preventable deaths’
Knock-on effects of PIP assessment backlog ‘show ministers must get a grip’
Work coaches confirm harsher new DWP jobcentre tactics
DWP ‘may have unlawfully deprived tens of thousands of PIP claimants of back-payments’
‘Reckless or negligent?’ DWP’s decade-long failure to assess universal credit impact
Allowing DWP barristers to sit as benefits appeal judges ‘is unquestionably wrong’
A system that allows barristers who are paid by DWP to prosecute benefit fraud cases to also sit as judges on tribunals that decide social security appeals is “unquestionably wrong” and a “direct conflict of interest”, say welfare rights experts. The […]