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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 […]
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 […]
Disability News Service (DNS) has won a ground-breaking legal battle with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the release of a secret government report into the death of a disabled benefit claimant. A DWP barrister told an inquest yesterday […]
The high court has this week been asked to consider evidence of the “unbearable” and “catastrophic” impact of the government’s “fitness for work” system on people with experience of mental distress. The evidence was submitted to the high court in support […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is claiming not to possess documents that show estimates for the eventual impact of universal credit on disabled people, despite telling both the statistics regulator and MPs that they exist. In the latest stage […]
The minister for disabled people took part in just a handful of meetings with “external” organisations during each of the first four months of the pandemic, government figures have revealed. Analysis of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data shows that […]
The mother of a disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped has asked the high court to order a second inquest into her death. Joy Dove wants to see the “heartless and cruel” actions of the Department […]
The minister for disabled people has misled a Commons committee for the second time about his engagement with disabled people during the pandemic. The actions of Justin Tomlinson emerged as the Commons women and equalities committee published its report into the […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is failing to investigate the suicides of hundreds of benefit claimants every year, despite the vital lessons it could learn from such inquiries, new analysis of official figures suggests. In more than five years, […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when claimants threaten to take their own lives, following secret reviews into as many as six suicides linked to the benefit system. The reviews suggest […]