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Government’s 2016 welfare reforms ‘had devastating impact on disabled people’

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s 2016 welfare reforms ‘had devastating impact on disabled people’
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Government welfare reforms introduced in 2016 have had a “devastating” impact on disabled people and others in low-income households over the last five years, according to a new report by a group of MPs and peers. The report (PDF) by the […]

Secret report casts doubt on DWP’s ‘no duty of care’ claim

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret report casts doubt on DWP’s ‘no duty of care’ claim
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been unable to explain why its secretary of state continues to insist that it has no legal “duty of care” to disabled benefit claimants, when one of its own secret reports states clearly […]

Foxcroft defends Labour’s near-silence over death of Philippa Day

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Foxcroft defends Labour’s near-silence over death of Philippa Day
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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has been unable to explain why she and her party have stayed almost silent about a young disabled mother whose death was linked by a coroner to fatal flaws in the disability benefits system. Last […]

Coffey dodges MP’s questions over death of Philippa Day

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey dodges MP’s questions over death of Philippa Day
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The work and pensions secretary has refused to answer questions from an MP about the death of a young disabled mother which was blamed by a coroner on flaws in the disability benefits system. MPs on the work and pensions committee […]

Call for action over ‘scandal’ of benefit claimant suicides ignored by DWP

By John Pring on 17th December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for action over ‘scandal’ of benefit claimant suicides ignored by DWP
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is failing to investigate the suicides of hundreds of benefit claimants every year, despite the vital lessons it could learn from such inquiries, new analysis of official figures suggests. In more than five years, […]

‘Heartless’ Coffey’s duty of care claim ‘sticks fingers up to benefit death families’

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Heartless’ Coffey’s duty of care claim ‘sticks fingers up to benefit death families’
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Therese Coffey has been accused of “sticking her fingers up” at every family whose relative has died because of the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after she claimed that her department has no “duty of care” to […]

Watchdog ‘could finally be set to launch benefit deaths inquiry’

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog ‘could finally be set to launch benefit deaths inquiry’
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The human rights watchdog may finally be ready to announce an inquiry into the deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), according to a campaigning MP. The Equality and […]

EHRC papers show it sidelined its own board on WCA death inquiry decision

By John Pring on 6th August 2020 Category: Human Rights

EHRC papers show it sidelined its own board on WCA death inquiry decision
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The equality and human rights watchdog failed to consult its board, or its disabled advisers, before deciding to delay an inquiry into the government’s work capability assessment and its links with the deaths of benefit claimants, new documents have revealed. The […]

Coffey dodges questions from MPs over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 23rd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey dodges questions from MPs over benefit deaths
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has been accused of dodging key questions about links between her department and the suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, during an evidence sessions with MPs. Coffey repeatedly told members of the Commons work […]

Coronavirus: Return of benefit sanctions in middle of pandemic ‘is barbaric’

By John Pring on 2nd July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Return of benefit sanctions in middle of pandemic ‘is barbaric’
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Disabled campaigners have described the government’s decision to reintroduce benefit sanctions – in the middle of a pandemic – as “barbaric” and “life threatening”. The decision meant an end to the three-month suspension of benefit sanctions and conditionality* in England, Scotland […]

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