Former minister for disabled people Esther McVey has angered campaigners after an “ill-informed and offensive” demand that the government must never order another lockdown, despite the measure probably saving tens of thousands of disabled people’s lives during the pandemic. McVey, who […]
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Government ‘may have breached Equality Act duties’ over Lying-in-State queue
DPO gives stark warning to disabled people about Covid pandemic
Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
Coronavirus round-up: Supercharged inequalities, shielding, and wellbeing concerns
Judge’s PIP comments suggest thousands have had claims wrongly stopped
‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews
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 […]