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DWP secretly abandons work on £100m plan to prevent suicides and learn from errors

By John Pring on 8th December 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secretly abandons work on £100m plan to prevent suicides and learn from errors
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to prevent suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, learn from its mistakes, and deliver reform “for the most vulnerable in society”. […]

Pursglove looks set to be fourth minister for disabled people in 14 months

By John Pring on 3rd November 2022 Category: Politics

Pursglove looks set to be fourth minister for disabled people in 14 months
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The government appears to be set to announce Corby MP Tom Pursglove as the fourth minister for disabled people in just 14 months. Although the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has not yet announced the portfolios of its latest set […]

DWP admits court defeat after universal credit discrimination led to suicide thoughts

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits court defeat after universal credit discrimination led to suicide thoughts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by months of failures by universal credit advisers and jobcentres. A legal […]

Truss ‘must act now’ to prevent disabled people facing ‘humanitarian crisis’ this winter

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Truss ‘must act now’ to prevent disabled people facing ‘humanitarian crisis’ this winter
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Campaigners have written to the new prime minister to ask her to act urgently to prevent disabled people facing a “humanitarian crisis” this winter due to the “devastating and intensifying” levels of poverty they are facing. They warn Liz Truss in […]

DPOs demand chancellor accepts seven-point plan to save lives this winter

By John Pring on 18th August 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DPOs demand chancellor accepts seven-point plan to save lives this winter
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Campaigning disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the chancellor to accept a seven-point plan that they believe will save disabled people’s lives this winter. Members of the Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) have told Nadhim Zahawi that the millions of […]

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will each miss out on £650 in crucial support, because of the government’s failure to target new cost-of-living funding at some of the groups most in need, disabled campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations said […]

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system

By John Pring on 27th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commission calls for ‘transformational’ change to social security system
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A user-led commission has called for a “transformational” reboot of the social security system to replace the current “inadequate, demeaning, inefficient” structure that “deliberately scapegoats” unemployed and disabled people. In its final proposals, following more than three years of work, the Commission […]

Overwhelming support for user-led commission’s new vision for social security

By John Pring on 14th October 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Overwhelming support for user-led commission’s new vision for social security
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Proposals by a user-led commission for sweeping reform of the social security system – including a new “extra costs” benefit for disabled people – have secured overwhelming support in a consultation exercise. More than 1,100 people responded to a draft plan […]

DWP and contractor admit delays with mail handling

By John Pring on 16th September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP and contractor admit delays with mail handling
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Disabled benefit claimants have been facing significant delays with their claims because of pandemic-related issues at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) mail-handling sites run by one of its contractors, DWP has admitted. Last month, DWP blamed Royal Mail for any […]

DWP ‘may have unlawfully deprived tens of thousands of PIP claimants of back-payments’

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘may have unlawfully deprived tens of thousands of PIP claimants of back-payments’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may have acted unlawfully after potentially depriving tens of thousands of benefit claimants of thousands of pounds each in back-payments, campaigners believe. Now, after taking legal advice from a leading social security barrister, the […]

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