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DWP caught planning to claw back vital support through universal credit ‘migration’

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP caught planning to claw back vital support through universal credit ‘migration’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been caught trying to claw back vital support from disabled people set to be “migrated” across to the new universal credit from their existing benefits. The clawback means that disabled people whose support […]

Civil servant says DWP wants to merge PIP and universal credit

By John Pring on 25th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Civil servant says DWP wants to merge PIP and universal credit
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A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servant has told a disability charity that the government plans to merge personal independence payment (PIP) with universal credit, although not for at least six years. The admission from a DWP civil servant […]

Philippa Day: Flawed PIP system led to young mum’s death, says coroner

By John Pring on 28th January 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Philippa Day: Flawed PIP system led to young mum’s death, says coroner
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Flaws in the disability benefits system were “the predominant factor and the only acute factor” that led to a young disabled mother taking her own life, a coroner has concluded. Gordon Clow, assistant coroner for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, yesterday (Wednesday) highlighted […]

Philippa Day: Young mother ‘took her own life after being told to attend PIP assessment’

By John Pring on 14th January 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Philippa Day: Young mother ‘took her own life after being told to attend PIP assessment’
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A young disabled mother killed herself after hearing she would have to attend a face-to-face interview at a benefits assessment centre, following repeated warnings that she could not cope with such a meeting, an inquest has heard. Philippa Day left an […]

Philippa Day: DWP phone agent ignored sobbing claimant who later ‘took her own life’

By John Pring on 14th January 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Philippa Day: DWP phone agent ignored sobbing claimant who later ‘took her own life’
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Evidence from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff to an inquest has revealed a series of failings in dealing with the disability benefit claim of a young disabled mother, in the months leading up to her apparent suicide. Assistant coroner […]

Philippa Day: Disabled woman left note implicating DWP and its PIP failings in her death

By John Pring on 12th November 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Philippa Day: Disabled woman left note implicating DWP and its PIP failings in her death
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A disabled woman, who apparently took her own life in despair at the way her benefits claim was being dealt with, left a note that “directly implicated” the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in her death. Philippa Day, who had […]

DWP unlawfully blocked support for disabled students for seven years, says court

By John Pring on 12th November 2020 Category: Education

DWP unlawfully blocked support for disabled students for seven years, says court
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented thousands of disabled students from trying to claim the benefits they needed to pay for essential living costs for seven years, a court has found. In the latest in a lengthy line […]

Tribunal victory gives hope to ‘failure to attend’ benefit victims

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

Tribunal victory gives hope to ‘failure to attend’ benefit victims
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A disabled woman’s tribunal victory has given hope to claimants who cannot take part in face-to-face benefit assessments for impairment, health, or trauma-related reasons, but then have their claims ended by the government for “failure to attend” their appointments. Jane* spent […]

DWP silence after PIP success rate plunges by a fifth in just a year

By John Pring on 19th December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP silence after PIP success rate plunges by a fifth in just a year
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The likelihood of being awarded the government’s new disability benefit has plunged by more than a fifth in just a year, official figures have revealed. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures, released the day after the election, show that […]

Election 2019: 100,000 people have lost Motability vehicles through Tory PIP reforms

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Election 2019: 100,000 people have lost Motability vehicles through Tory PIP reforms
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More than 100,000 disabled people have lost their Motability vehicles after being reassessed as part of the Conservatives’ disability benefit reforms, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The figures show the number of Motability customers who have had to return their […]

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