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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to explain why its new policy paper on benefit fraud has ignored concerns raised by a coroner about a disabled woman who died following a “targeted” review of her universal credit claim. […]
A tribunal has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay nearly £50,000 in damages to a Deaf man after repeatedly failing to provide him with the interpreters he needed for job-related interviews. Paul Rimmer said he believed his […]
The government is refusing to act or criticise its minister for disabled people after she shared a social media post that attacked her own department’s disability benefit reforms. Last week, Mims Davies shared a post on Twitter by a disability charity […]
Questions have emerged over the role played by local news websites across the country in increasing the number of disabled people applying for disability benefits, casting fresh doubts on the government’s key argument for spending cuts. Last week, ministers announced proposals […]
The equality watchdog has been accused of bowing to political pressure by failing to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to prevent further deaths of disabled benefit claimants, two years after promising to take legal action. It is now […]
The prime minister has been asked to explain his government’s “onslaught” on disability rights, in a letter signed by more than 25 disabled people’s organisations and allies. They have accused Rishi Sunak of trying to “scare people into good health” and […]
The minister for disabled people has refused to explain why she shared a social media post that described her own government’s disability benefit reforms as “dangerous” and accused ministers of “demonising” disabled people. Mims Davies, who has been minister for disabled […]
The government is considering making it harder to claim disability benefits and even replacing cash payments with vouchers or one-off grants, as part of its latest “brutal, ideological attack” on disabled people’s support. The plans could see the Department for Work […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to say how many disabled people it expects to lose their disability benefits if it pushes ahead with controversial proposals for reforms and spending cuts. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and the […]
Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride has refused to apologise for misleading viewers twice in a television interview about his plans to cut disability benefits. On the day he launched a new green paper that described the Conservative government’s plans to […]