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Disabled people are facing an “existential threat” after the government suggested it was planning a further assault on disability benefits spending, while stirring up hostility towards disabled claimants. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Rishi Sunak said he planned to […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing allegations of another cover-up after the minutes of a panel set up to examine “serious cases” failed to mention that rules on when to investigate benefit claimant suicides had been weakened. […]
A disabled campaigner who tried to take his own life in his local jobcentre has described how “anger and despair” at the imminent reassessment of both of his disability benefits drove him to the suicide attempt. David Rollins, from Orchardson Avenue, […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly dismissed concerns raised by coroners who have investigated the deaths of benefit claimants, in a pattern of behaviour that stretches back 14 years, analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. DNS […]
A disabled woman who was driven to extreme distress and suicidal thoughts by the failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make reasonable adjustments for her disability benefit claim has secured more than £6,000 in compensation. DWP repeatedly […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ordered to release a secret report that describes the impact of its errors on “vulnerable” benefit claimants, which it admits could have a “negative” impact on its reputation. The report contains “worst […]
A disabled man has had his benefits slashed after an Atos nurse lied about what he told her during an assessment about his pain and suicidal thoughts, and repeatedly under-stated how his health conditions affect his day-to-day life. The nurse even […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is continuing to send an access consultant inaccessible letters about his disability benefits, despite the high court ruling that this was unlawful discrimination. Dr Yusuf Ali Osman, who is blind, had brought a judicial […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted to the public spending watchdog that its system of disability benefits assessments is too slow, too expensive and too inaccurate, and too many claimants do not trust how it makes decisions. The […]
Waiting-times on a benefit enquiry line have continued to rise, despite the minister for disabled people promising that his department was recruiting extra staff to bring them down. In April, Tom Pursglove (pictured) admitted that the average waiting time in March […]