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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped sending key records from a crucial period in the history of disability benefit reform to The National Archives so they can be viewed by researchers. Under the Public Records Act, government departments […]
Labour’s new work and pensions secretary has told MPs that she is open to the idea of her department being subject to a legal “safeguarding duty”, a move that could transform its approach to the safety of disabled benefit claimants. Liz […]
Relatives of disabled people whose deaths were caused by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have welcomed the decision by a committee of MPs to relaunch an inquiry into the department’s years of safeguarding failures. The Commons work and pensions […]
The way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has treated disabled people in the last 15 years “will go down in history as a terrible and inexcusable crime”, MPs were told this week during a debate on the new government’s […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied destroying documents that would have revealed why it weakened guidance on when to investigate the cases of benefit claimants who took their own lives, following a probe by the information commissioner. Repeated […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it carried out more than 30 secret reviews last year into cases of serious harm or deaths involving someone receiving universal credit. Internal process reviews (IPRs) are only carried out […]
Spending on supporting disabled people in work through a disability employment scheme has more than doubled in real terms in the last seven years, new government figures have revealed. The new Access to Work statistics, published by the Department for Work […]
Labour’s first budget for 15 years has failed to do enough to address the “systemic challenges” faced by disabled people across society, user-led organisations have warned the Treasury. The first budget speech of chancellor Rachel Reeves included no serious attempt to […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) breached its own rules by destroying recordings that would have shown how a work coach told a traumatised disabled woman to attend a face-to-face jobcentre meeting, days before she took her own life. DWP’s […]
A minister has cast fresh doubt on claims by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall that she is planning to send work coaches onto mental health wards to push people in severe mental distress off benefits and into work. The response […]