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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The minister for disabled people has ignored calls for an inquiry into deaths linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The disabled Labour MP Marsha de Cordova had called for an inquiry this week after telling […]
The work and pensions secretary has dismissed the need for a new review into the work capability assessment, despite being told that her own department failed to pass information about its links with claimant deaths to an independent reviewer. Therese Coffey […]
The expert commissioned by the government to review the work capability assessment (WCA) has told MPs that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to hand him crucial evidence showing links between the test and the deaths of disabled claimants. […]