UN poverty report: Newton refuses to apologise for misleading MPs about report
The minister for disabled people is refusing to apologise to MPs for misleading them about…
Browsing: disability benefits
DWP ‘dispute with contractor’ led to ‘months of delays’ with alternative format letters
Disabled people who need to receive letters from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…
Benefits Street antidote ‘will not be a safe space for audiences’
An award-winning disabled poet, performer and stand-up is hoping that her new show – based…
Damian Green caught exaggerating disability benefits spending in PMQs
The first secretary of state has been caught exaggerating the government’s spending on disability benefits…
Labour’s four leadership contenders show contrasting views on disability benefits
The four candidates to be the next leader of the Labour party have revealed their…
Election 2015: Tories dodge questions over disability benefit cuts
The prime minister has become the third senior Conservative figure in a week to refuse…
Secret DWP reviews called for improvements after benefit deaths
The government has admitted that more than 30 secret reviews carried out following the deaths…
Tory silence over scope of ‘unethical’ review of incapacity benefits
The Conservative party has refused to say if controversial proposals to cut the out-of-work disability…
Ministers change the story – yet again – on benefit-related deaths
Ministers have admitted releasing yet more inaccurate information about their secret inquiries into the deaths…
Recession and austerity ‘have provided a deadly mixture’
The combination of the recession and the coalition’s austerity programme is likely to have been…