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A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. The […]
An investigation into unlawful treatment of disabled benefit claimants will not accept evidence from individual disabled people or relatives of those who died through failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the equality watchdog has confirmed. The Equality and […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is again facing cover-up allegations after suggesting that it has destroyed reports showing why it weakened guidance on when to investigate suicides of benefit claimants. Disability News Service revealed last month that DWP had […]