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DWP repeatedly breaches FoI laws ‘in bid to hide secret jobcentre reports’

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP repeatedly breaches FoI laws ‘in bid to hide secret jobcentre reports’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly breached freedom of information laws in an apparent attempt to prevent the release of secret reports written by disabled people recruited to work within its jobcentres. Two years ago, DWP published a […]

DWP agrees to test new approach in latest sign of softer approach to sanctions

By John Pring on 26th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP agrees to test new approach in latest sign of softer approach to sanctions
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Ministers are to test a new approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time, in the latest sign that the government is finally listening to calls to soften its much-criticised sanctions regime. The Department for […]

Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Human Rights

Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest
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The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his benefits sanctioned has launched a high court legal challenge over a coroner’s refusal to hold an inquest into his death. David Clapson (pictured), who had diabetes, […]

Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions regime

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions regime
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The government has been heavily-criticised by the public spending watchdog for failing to investigate how its own sanctions regime affects disabled people and other claimants of out-of-work benefits. The National Audit Office (NAO) report says the Department for Work and Pensions […]

Sanction death man’s sister turns to courts after coroner turns down inquest call

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sanction death man’s sister turns to courts after coroner turns down inquest call
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The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his benefits sanctioned is to seek the help of the high court after a coroner refused for the second time to hold an inquest into his death. […]

Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

By John Pring on 3rd November 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death
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Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned have asked a coroner to explain why there was no inquest into his death. Gill Thompson has paid for the legal action through crowd-funding, raising more […]

Sister hopes campaign for benefit sanction inquest will prevent further deaths

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sister hopes campaign for benefit sanction inquest will prevent further deaths
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The sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned has launched a campaign to persuade the attorney general to order an inquest into his death. Gill Thompson needs to raise £10, 000 to instruct lawyers, apply for […]

‘Disabled woman’s life at risk’ after DWP harassment

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Disabled woman’s life at risk’ after DWP harassment
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A disabled woman says her life is at risk following a “barrage” of texts and phone calls from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), threatening – unlawfully – to remove her benefits if she failed to attend a work-focused interview. […]

Ministers look to loophole to hide truth on benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Ministers look to loophole to hide truth on benefit-related deaths
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Ministers have admitted they are considering using a legal loophole to avoid publishing the results of secret reviews into 60 benefit-related deaths. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted to Disability News Service (DNS) last month that it had carried […]

Minister: ‘We don’t warn social workers when vulnerable claimants are sanctioned’

By John Pring on 5th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive, Politics

Minister: ‘We don’t warn social workers when vulnerable claimants are sanctioned’
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A minister has admitted that it is not government policy to warn health or social services when “vulnerable” service-users have had their benefits “sanctioned”. The admission by the Conservative employment minister Esther McVey comes just weeks after her department admitted to […]

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