Waiting-times faced by disabled people trying to use a benefit enquiry line are even higher than previously thought, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last week that the “average speed of answer” for […]
Benefits and Work
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 […]