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DWP blunder sees claimants told their benefit overpayment debt has been written off

By John Pring on 22nd October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP blunder sees claimants told their benefit overpayment debt has been written off
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has had to send out a panicked message to staff after its IT system mistakenly ordered benefit overpayments owed by thousands of claimants to the government to be written off. Last month, following a […]

COVID crisis ‘left disabled people feeling abandoned, ignored and devalued’

By John Pring on 10th September 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

COVID crisis ‘left disabled people feeling abandoned, ignored and devalued’
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The coronavirus crisis has left disabled people feeling “abandoned, ignored and devalued”, according to a new report by user-led organisations and their allies in the north-east of England. The report, Manifesto for a Better Normal, focuses on four key areas that […]

Expert benefit claimants devise social security system ‘no longer guided by stereotypes’

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Expert benefit claimants devise social security system ‘no longer guided by stereotypes’
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A ground-breaking group of service-users have devised a draft plan for replacing the current working-age benefits system with something that is no longer “guided by stereotypes and myths about disabled people and people in poverty”. The Commission on Social Security, led […]

Coronavirus: Disabled benefit claimants tell MPs how crisis has hit them hard

By John Pring on 30th April 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Disabled benefit claimants tell MPs how crisis has hit them hard
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Disabled people have told MPs how they have been hit particularly hard by the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the benefits system. The Commons work and pensions committee carried out a survey of benefit claimants as part of an inquiry […]

PIP helpline for Deaf claimants was out of action for six weeks… without DWP noticing

By John Pring on 19th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP helpline for Deaf claimants was out of action for six weeks… without DWP noticing
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A key helpline that allows Deaf people and those with speech impairments to secure help with their disability benefit claims was out of action for at least six weeks, apparently without the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) even noticing. Campaigners […]

ESA sanctions fall close to zero, but concerns remain over JSA and universal credit

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ESA sanctions fall close to zero, but concerns remain over JSA and universal credit
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The number of disabled people on the main out-of-work disability benefit who are being sanctioned by the government for failing to meet strict conditions has fallen close to zero, following years of criticism of the harsh regime. Department for Work and […]

Nursing regulator cleared more than 200 nurses over PIP and WCA complaints

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Nursing regulator cleared more than 200 nurses over PIP and WCA complaints
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A regulator failed to find a single nurse “not fit to practise” despite more than 220 complaints about face-to-face disability benefit assessments carried out for government contractors, its own figures have revealed. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures show it […]

DWP ‘plans to move more benefits onto troubled universal credit IT platform’

By John Pring on 15th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘plans to move more benefits onto troubled universal credit IT platform’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been planning for years to move more benefits onto the hugely-troubled IT platform that hosts universal credit, documents released through freedom of information requests appear to show. DWP deposited a substantial number of […]

DWP’s links with accessible shopping day lead to boycott call

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DWP’s links with accessible shopping day lead to boycott call
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Disabled activists have called for a boycott of the UK’s first accessible shopping day because of its close links with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and fears that CCTV footage could be used to dispute disability benefit claims. Purple, […]

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’
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A minister has suggested that the government would be doing a “great disservice” to disabled people if it stopped sanctioning their out-of-work benefits. The comment by Alok Sharma, the employment minister, came in correspondence with the Commons work and pensions committee […]

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