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A key government disability jobs programme had “no discernible impact” on helping people with long-term health conditions into work, a new series of reports has found. The reports on two Individual Placement and Support (IPS) trials found the costs of running […]
New research has exposed how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has “weaponised” time as a strategy to avoid being held accountable for deaths related to the benefits system. It shows how the department’s use of delaying tactics has helped […]
More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released figures that suggest that 516,000 claimants across […]
MPs are to launch an inquiry into safeguarding arrangements at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), following countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to its actions and failings over more than a decade. The Commons work and pensions committee […]
The minister for disabled people has launched a new “disability action plan” that he claims will “help transform disabled people’s everyday lives for the better”, but which includes no new spending commitments or promised legislation. Tom Pursglove said his draft Disability […]
Key digital services used to run the disability benefits system are still being branded “high risk” on accessibility, a year after secret Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reports found scores of its services were failing to comply with regulations. DWP’s […]
Ministers have only made a tiny dent in the number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work claim in the last year, new figures have revealed. Unpublished figures released to Disability News Service (DNS) show there […]
Union activists have called for action over discriminatory articles in a national newspaper that “legitimise” hate speech by attacking disabled benefit claimants. Disabled journalists – backed overwhelmingly by fellow union activists – called this week for the press regulator to strengthen […]
Activists are set to fight on in the battle to force the government to listen to disabled people in drawing up a proper national disability strategy, despite the government winning its appeal in a long-running court case. The Court of Appeal […]
The number of disabled people waiting longer than six months to be told whether they have been successful in their claim for a key disability benefit has plummeted over the last year, new figures have shown. Figures obtained by Disability News […]