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No apology from DWP for ‘potentially dangerous’ ESA letters

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

No apology from DWP for ‘potentially dangerous’ ESA letters
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Disabled benefit claimants have complained after being targeted by government letters telling them to attend short-notice “work-focussed interviews” (WFIs), but failing to mention that attendance was voluntary. Research by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has found that employment and support allowance […]

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

DWP admits investigating 60 benefit-related deaths since 2012
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out 60 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths in less than three years, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. DWP released the figures in response to a series of Freedom of Information Act […]

No explanation from ministers for soaring ESA sanctions

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

No explanation from ministers for soaring ESA sanctions
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Ministers have again refused to offer any explanation for the soaring use of sanctions against claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. Figures published this week by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that the number of decisions to sanction claimants […]

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’
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The failure of Work Programme contractors to provide enough employment support to disabled people and other “harder-to-help” benefit claimants is “a scandal”, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Margaret Hodge said the government’s decision to […]

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