UN poverty report: Newton refuses to apologise for misleading MPs about report
The minister for disabled people is refusing to apologise to MPs for misleading them about…
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‘Utterly disgraceful’ Public Health England refuses to warn councils of ESA suicide risk
The government’s public health agency has refused to warn local NHS and council bodies that…
DWP ‘plans to move more benefits onto troubled universal credit IT platform’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been planning for years to move more…
‘Chaotic’ universal credit led to disabled man’s death, sister tells UN poverty expert
A UN expert has heard how a man with learning difficulties died a month after…
Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’
A minister has suggested that the government would be doing a “great disservice” to disabled…
Suicide prevention minister could be ‘legally compromised’ over silence on ESA risk
Disabled activists say the new “minister for suicide prevention” could leave herself “legally compromised” by…
New ‘suicide prevention’ minister evades questions on ESA suicide stats
The new “minister for suicide prevention” has refused to say if she will alert agencies…
DWP ignores concerns from disabled people who shun activity over benefit fraud fears
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to offer a solution to disabled…
Labour conference: De Cordova calls for a ‘Labour alternative’ to universal credit
Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has called on her party to come up with…
WCA tragedy woman’s mum vows to fight on for justice despite No 10 letter snub
A disabled woman whose daughter took her own life after being wrongly found “fit for…