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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has disputed claims made by its own disability minister which explained why widespread cuts were made to disabled people’s Access to Work support packages after Labour came to power in July 2024. Disability News […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has claimed that “an issue” with data is preventing it releasing figures that would show just how many disabled people have been affected by cuts to the Access to Work disability employment programme. Campaigners […]
The government needs to change its “extremely damaging” narrative that suggests disabled people are an “economic burden”, and move away from threats and sanctions, if it wants to increase disability employment, MPs have been told. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) told members […]
The disability minister has refused once again to explain what role he played in his department’s secret programme to cut Access to Work (AtW) grants. It is the latest failure by Sir Stephen Timms to clarify when and how the Department for […]
The disability minister has gone back on his word by refusing to provide crucial information that would help expose a “perverse”, secret programme to restrict grants made by the Access to Work disability employment scheme. Sir Stephen Timms told Disability News […]
The Access to Work scheme is failing Deaf and disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a detailed dossier of evidence prepared […]
The disability minister has admitted signing off on orders that have led to widespread cuts to disabled people’s Access to Work support packages since Labour came to power. Disabled campaigners have been warning for more than a year of DWP cuts and […]
Hundreds of disabled people and allies have called on the prime minister to take “urgent” action to fix the crisis-ridden and “broken” Access to Work disability employment scheme. In a new open letter, Access to Work Collective says disabled people who […]
A new cross-party report from MPs has raised significant concerns about the impact of the government’s disability benefit cuts and reforms on the poverty and safety of disabled claimants. The Labour-dominated Commons work and pensions committee calls in the report for […]
A government scheme that focused extra workplace funding on disabled people with higher support needs had a positive impact on both employees and employers, according to new research released just as ministers are seeking cuts to a wider programme. The scheme, […]