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Errol Graham: DWP ‘misled coroner over safeguarding review’

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: DWP ‘misled coroner over safeguarding review’
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants persuaded a coroner not to write a report that would have called for urgent action to prevent the deaths of benefit claimants, after providing her with misleading information about a safeguarding review. Evidence […]

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted destroying its own secret reports into suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants. The admission has added to growing calls for an independent inquiry into links between DWP policies and procedures and […]

Letter shows ‘appalling’ DWP misled two watchdogs over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Letter shows ‘appalling’ DWP misled two watchdogs over benefit deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been failing to track recommendations made by its own secret reviews into benefit-related deaths, it has told the spending watchdog, three years after claiming it had corrected the same failings. The “appalling” revelation […]

Errol Graham: Family demand criminal probe into former DWP ministers

By John Pring on 30th January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: Family demand criminal probe into former DWP ministers
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The family of a man who starved to death after his out-of-work benefits were wrongly stopped have backed calls for a criminal investigation into former ministers and senior civil servants they believe are responsible for his and other deaths. Last week, […]

The death of Errol Graham: Activists left ‘enraged’ and ‘sickened’ by latest DWP death

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

The death of Errol Graham: Activists left ‘enraged’ and ‘sickened’ by latest DWP death
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Disabled activists have been left sickened, shocked and enraged after hearing how a disabled man starved to death when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his out-of-work benefits for missing an assessment. One campaigner said the level of […]

Equality watchdog ‘considering action’ on benefits discrimination

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Equality watchdog ‘considering action’ on benefits discrimination
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The equality watchdog is considering taking action to tackle discrimination in the way decisions are made in the social security system, it revealed this morning. Although the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has not provided any further details, it released […]

DWP sanctions system discriminated against disabled people for a decade, figures show

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP sanctions system discriminated against disabled people for a decade, figures show
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The government’s mainstream benefit sanctions regime has been discriminating against disabled people throughout nearly the whole of the last decade, according to new figures secured by Disability News Service (DNS). The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures, obtained through a […]

Welfare reform caused child deaths, poor health and food poverty, inquiry hears

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Welfare reform caused child deaths, poor health and food poverty, inquiry hears
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A key piece of government legislation that slashed social security payments to disabled people and families with children has led to infant deaths, poor health and severe food poverty, activists, policy experts and academics have told a parliamentary inquiry. The inquiry, […]

Tomlinson misleads Abrahams over cover-up as MPs debate DWP deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tomlinson misleads Abrahams over cover-up as MPs debate DWP deaths cover-up
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The minister for disabled people is today (Thursday) facing questions over why he misled a senior Labour MP about his department’s cover-up of links between its “fitness for work” test and the deaths of disabled people. The failure by Justin Tomlinson […]

Abrahams asks watchdog to investigate DWP benefit deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 6th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Abrahams asks watchdog to investigate DWP benefit deaths cover-up
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An MP has asked the equality and human rights watchdog to investigate why ministers hid documents from their own independent reviewer when they knew the information would link their “fitness for work” test to the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Labour’s […]

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