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DWP’s failure to sign discrimination agreement ‘is totally unacceptable’

By John Pring on 12th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s failure to sign discrimination agreement ‘is totally unacceptable’
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The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told that the continuing failure to sign a legal agreement that would force his department to improve its treatment of disabled claimants is “totally unacceptable”. It […]

Further DWP delays on benefit deaths legal agreement ‘would be kick in the teeth’

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Further DWP delays on benefit deaths legal agreement ‘would be kick in the teeth’
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The new work and pensions secretary has been told it will be an “absolute kick in the teeth” for disabled people if he continues delaying a legal agreement that would force his department to improve its treatment of disabled claimants. The […]

Secret reviews into DWP deaths more than double in three years

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret reviews into DWP deaths more than double in three years
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New figures show how the number of secret reviews into deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has more than doubled over the last three years. They show how […]

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour and Lib Dems give half-hearted welcome to DWP deaths evidence
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Political parties implicated in decades of government failings that have led to the deaths of countless disabled benefit claimants have given a half-hearted welcome to new research that brings together more than 30 years of evidence proving those links. The draft […]

DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed new research that for the first time brings together more than 30 years of evidence that links its systemic failings with the deaths of countless disabled claimants of benefits. The Deaths by […]

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told

By John Pring on 23rd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” research that linked the work capability assessment with 600 suicides in just three years, MPs have been told. The failure is just the latest evidence to […]

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for trying to obtain info on 90 DWP deaths
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The government has branded Disability News Service (DNS) “vexatious” for attempting to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain key details from more than 90 secret reviews into deaths and other serious incidents involving benefit claimants. DNS asked the Department […]

Trio of disabled women say EHRC has failed them and other families over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 28th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Trio of disabled women say EHRC has failed them and other families over benefit deaths
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Three disabled women who lost relatives because of the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have accused the equality watchdog of failing them and countless other families. They spoke out this week after the Equality and Human Rights […]

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths
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The equality watchdog has been accused of failing disabled people and becoming “an extension of government”, after dropping any attempt to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account for its links to countless deaths of benefit claimants. In […]

Coffey’s ‘embarrassing’ performance before MPs as she ‘forgets’ key disability policies

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Politics

Coffey’s ‘embarrassing’ performance before MPs as she ‘forgets’ key disability policies
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey was accused of an “embarrassing” performance in front of MPs yesterday (Wednesday) after she was repeatedly forced to admit she could not remember key aspects of her government’s disability policies. Coffey (pictured) was appearing in […]

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