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A Conservative minister banned the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from using the word “safeguarding”, despite DWP’s connection with countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants since 2010, MPs have been told. Labour’s new social security and disability minister, Sir Stephen […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide. The research, commissioned in 2018, examined […]
A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers to meet their legal obligations to co-produce policy. Disabled activist […]
The new disability minister has been told it is “not too late to change course”, after government figures showed he has prioritised meetings with the big disability charities over engagement with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). The figures, obtained by Disability News […]
Conservative ministers prevented research that showed disabled people on out-of-work benefits were subject to high levels of stress, debt and isolation from being included in a controversial policy paper that called for cuts to spending on those benefits. The research had […]
Conservative ministers decided to hide a report that exposed the flaws of the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system, just five days before they published proposals to replace PIP cash payments with vouchers or one-off grants, ministerial emails have revealed. Disability […]
The elections watchdog has criticised political parties that failed to produce their general election manifestos in accessible formats. The Electoral Commission has also highlighted how disabled candidates were still not able to secure government funding to support them with their access […]
Disabled people have reacted with alarm to “stigmatising”, “damaging” and “inaccurate” comments about mental health and autism by Kemi Badenoch, the right-wing Conservative MP who could soon be the next leader of her party. The comments were made in a pamphlet […]
Research suppressed by the last government exposed how the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system and its dishonest and unfair assessments left disabled people “broken”, “numb” and “fuming”. The research, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), examined the […]
The government has refused to clarify comments by the prime minister which suggested that all claimants of long-term sickness benefits will be expected to look for work under Labour’s social security reforms. The refusal came as Mims Davies, the last Conservative […]