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Minister: ‘We don’t warn social workers when vulnerable claimants are sanctioned’

By John Pring on 5th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive, Politics

Minister: ‘We don’t warn social workers when vulnerable claimants are sanctioned’
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A minister has admitted that it is not government policy to warn health or social services when “vulnerable” service-users have had their benefits “sanctioned”. The admission by the Conservative employment minister Esther McVey comes just weeks after her department admitted to […]

Scottish devolution agreement ‘falls far short of disabled people’s demands’

By John Pring on 5th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

Scottish devolution agreement ‘falls far short of disabled people’s demands’
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An agreement between the leading political parties over devolving further powers to Scotland “falls far short” of what was demanded by disabled people, say campaigners. The Smith Commission which reported last week, secured an agreement backed by the five parties represented […]

Concern over government’s ‘dreadful’ response to MPs’ ‘fitness for work’ report

By John Pring on 28th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Concern over government’s ‘dreadful’ response to MPs’ ‘fitness for work’ report
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Disabled activists have condemned the government’s latest refusal to order a major reform of its controversial “fitness for work” assessment. Four months ago, the Commons work and pensions select committee called for “fundamental redesign” of the much-criticised process used to determine […]

Widow’s treatment by DWP ‘has been inhumane and cruel’

By John Pring on 28th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Widow’s treatment by DWP ‘has been inhumane and cruel’
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A disabled widow has accused the government of subjecting her and her late husband to “inhumane and cruel” treatment, after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) argued that it was not responsible for supporting them. Laurel Duut’s husband Peter died […]

Disabled peer warns DWP that tighter benefit rules could cause more deaths

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive, Politics

Disabled peer warns DWP that tighter benefit rules could cause more deaths
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A disabled peer has warned her own government that tightening social security rules even further could lead to more deaths of benefit claimants, days after Disability News Service (DNS) revealed there had been 60 secret reviews into such tragedies. Last week’s […]

No apology from DWP for ‘potentially dangerous’ ESA letters

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

No apology from DWP for ‘potentially dangerous’ ESA letters
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Disabled benefit claimants have complained after being targeted by government letters telling them to attend short-notice “work-focussed interviews” (WFIs), but failing to mention that attendance was voluntary. Research by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has found that employment and support allowance […]

Disabled Tories hear minister praise government’s jobs record

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Disabled Tories hear minister praise government’s jobs record
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The minister for disabled people has praised his government’s record on employing disabled people, with more than a quarter of a million more in work in the last year. Conservative Mark Harper said there were now more than three million disabled […]

Judge brands DWP jobseeker’s agreement ‘unlawful’, after action by disabled claimant

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Judge brands DWP jobseeker’s agreement ‘unlawful’, after action by disabled claimant
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A judge has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that part of the agreement signed by out-of-work benefit claimants does not comply with the law, following a legal challenge from a disabled job-seeker. The comments by Judge Christopher Ward […]

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out 60 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths in less than three years, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. DWP released the figures in response to a series of Freedom of Information Act […]

ESA claimants set for leap ‘from frying-pan into fire’ as Maximus wins WCA contract

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

ESA claimants set for leap ‘from frying-pan into fire’ as Maximus wins WCA contract
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The government has sparked fury after appointing a US company with a lengthy record of discrimination, incompetence and alleged fraud to take over delivery of its controversial “fitness for work” tests from the much-criticised Atos Healthcare. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed […]

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