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Government fraud policy paper ignores coroner’s concerns over review of disabled woman’s universal credit claim

By John Pring on 16th May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government fraud policy paper ignores coroner’s concerns over review of disabled woman’s universal credit claim
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to explain why its new policy paper on benefit fraud has ignored concerns raised by a coroner about a disabled woman who died following a “targeted” review of her universal credit claim. […]

New questions over DWP fraud investigations after it wrongly threatens couple… over 88p

By John Pring on 29th February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New questions over DWP fraud investigations after it wrongly threatens couple… over 88p
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing fresh questions over how it carries out fraud investigations after it threatened to suspend the benefits of a disabled woman over a savings account it wrongly claimed belonged to her husband. Chris […]

DWP’s bank snooping laws ‘would create trap’ for claimants with social care accounts

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024 Category: Independent Living

DWP’s bank snooping laws ‘would create trap’ for claimants with social care accounts
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New laws that would give the government sweeping powers to carry out financial surveillance on benefit claimants would also pose a serious risk to disabled people who have set up bank accounts to pay for their social care, campaigners warn. Measures […]

New DWP bank ‘snooping powers’ would ‘treat disabled people like criminals’

By John Pring on 1st February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New DWP bank ‘snooping powers’ would ‘treat disabled people like criminals’
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New powers that would allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “snoop” on the bank accounts of benefit claimants would treat disabled people like criminals and further destroy trust, say campaigners. They spoke out this week against measures in […]

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