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One in five staff employed by contractors who carry out disability benefit assessments on the government’s behalf have not had vital safeguarding training, MPs have been told, despite years of deaths and serious harm linked to the tests. Members of the […]
The work and pensions secretary has admitted to MPs that his department has identified “key areas for improvement” in how it protects benefit claimants from harm, following years of deaths linked to its actions and failings. In a letter to the […]
Parents who pay to support a child through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its Child Maintenance Service (CMS) face death rates up to three times higher than others the same age, according to “shocking” and “deeply troubling” new figures. […]
Campaigners have called for an inquiry into the deaths of parents driven to despair by the refusal of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to correct errors in child support demands. They believe DWP figures show that the death rates […]
A senior Labour MP has been heavily criticised by disabled activists after telling the prime minister she felt “ashamed” of the government’s plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, despite voting for some of the cuts herself. Debbie Abrahams, […]
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall was on the verge of lying to MPs yesterday as she argued with a disabled MP about misleading comments she made in parliament on disability benefit cuts. Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat work and pensions […]
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Stephen Timms (pictured) made the admission as he told the […]
The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits must go ahead, despite the risk that they will once again cause countless deaths of disabled claimants. Sir Stephen Timms was […]
The social security and disability minister has misled MPs after suggesting he has ushered in a new era of openness and transparency in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Sir Stephen Timms told members of the work and pensions committee […]
A report from MPs today calls on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to introduce a new legal duty for it to safeguard “vulnerable” claimants of benefits, after decades of deaths and other harm linked to its policies and procedures. […]