Companies delivering the government’s Work Programme appear to have ignored rules that protect disabled people from serious harm, forcing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish new guidance on its benefit sanctions regime. DWP has accused providers of an […]
DWP
DLA reforms could dash teenager’s Paralympic dreams
One in five benefit-related deaths involved sanctions, admits DWP
PIP delay woman struggled to eat and heat her home, court hears
‘Disabled woman’s life at risk’ after DWP harassment
DWP carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service
Information watchdog to probe DWP’s secret reviews on benefit deaths
COMMENT: DWP’s threat to DNS
DWP ‘threatened to dock terminally-ill woman’s benefits’ if she paid for her own funeral
More than 100 a week losing their Motability vehicles, thanks to PIP
More than 100 disabled people every week are losing their Motability vehicles after being assessed for the government’s new disability benefit the charity has confirmed. The figures appears to confirm fears that the replacement of working-age disability living allowance with the […]