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DWP failings linked to death of claimant whose body lay undiscovered for years

By John Pring on 2nd February 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP failings linked to death of claimant whose body lay undiscovered for years
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The body of a disabled woman lay undiscovered in her flat for more than three years after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cut off her disability benefits, her family say. Laura Winham’s body was not found until May 2021, […]

Shock and anger over DWP’s ‘despicable’ decision to abandon work on deaths plan

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

Shock and anger over DWP’s ‘despicable’ decision to abandon work on deaths plan
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Disabled campaigners have expressed shock and anger after learning how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to help it prevent further deaths of benefit claimants. The plan was draw […]

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’

By John Pring on 28th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’
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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 […]

Fears over impact of DWP’s ‘horrific’ and ‘sinister’ anti-fraud plan

By John Pring on 26th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Fears over impact of DWP’s ‘horrific’ and ‘sinister’ anti-fraud plan
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“Horrific” and “sinister” plans to give the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sweeping new powers to investigate benefit claimants could have a serious impact on disabled people’s physical and mental health, activists have warned. Just as the social security cuts […]

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths
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The government has branded Disability News Service (DNS) “vexatious” for attempting to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain key details from more than 90 secret reviews into deaths and other serious incidents involving benefit claimants. DNS asked the Department […]

Prospect of Atos ‘fitness for work’ contract return horrifies activists

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

Prospect of Atos ‘fitness for work’ contract return horrifies activists
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Disabled activists reacted with horror this week after learning that the discredited government contractor Atos could soon be carrying out “fitness for work” tests again, six years after withdrawing from its assessment contract. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is […]

Anger after watchdog appears to back away from inquiry into DWP deaths

By John Pring on 29th April 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger after watchdog appears to back away from inquiry into DWP deaths
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The equality and human rights watchdog appears to have backed away from holding a wide-ranging statutory inquiry into links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]

Rethink sparks anger over deaths inquiry petition, after snubbing Justice for Jodey

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Rethink sparks anger over deaths inquiry petition, after snubbing Justice for Jodey
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Disabled activists have questioned why a charity is spearheading a new campaign to call for an inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), eight months after refusing to support a similar call by user-led groups. Last […]

Election 2019: Labour pledges inquiry into seven years of DWP benefit deaths

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Election 2019: Labour pledges inquiry into seven years of DWP benefit deaths
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A Labour government would set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its private sector contractors, the party has told Disability News Service. The […]

Dismay over psychiatrists’ failure to speak out on ‘abusive’ universal credit project

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Dismay over psychiatrists’ failure to speak out on ‘abusive’ universal credit project
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Five grassroots groups of disabled people have asked psychiatrists to explain why they have not spoken out publicly about a scheme that allows work coaches to refer universal credit (UC) claimants for mental health treatment. Mental Health Resistance Network, Disabled People […]

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