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Response to benefit assessment inquiry breaks Commons records

By John Pring on 16th November 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Response to benefit assessment inquiry breaks Commons records
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An inquiry into the government’s flawed disability benefit assessment regime has produced more online evidence from the public than any other investigation ever held by a House of Commons select committee. More than 2,800 submissions had been made to the work […]

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

By John Pring on 2nd November 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told a Commons inquiry that disability benefit assessment reports completed on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions are filled with “lies and misinformation”. The work and pensions select committee is carrying […]

Mum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’

By John Pring on 12th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’
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A disabled woman with a new baby is set to be evicted a fortnight before Christmas because the Department for Work and Pensions stopped her benefits when she failed to attend a “fitness for work” test she had not been told […]

Concerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions

By John Pring on 12th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions
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Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rules that explain which benefit claimants will no longer have to be repeatedly put through the much-criticised “fitness for work” test. DWP announced last month, on the eve of the […]

Tory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’

By John Pring on 5th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’
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Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer need to face repeated assessments of their capability for work are “meaningless” because the government has refused to say which people will be affected, say campaigners. The Department for […]

DWP whistleblower from ESA helpline exposes ‘obscene’ system

By John Pring on 7th September 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP whistleblower from ESA helpline exposes ‘obscene’ system
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A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has described how a “mismanaged” and under-funded social security system is leaving many disability benefit claimants penniless and helpless. George* works on DWP’s employment and support allowance (ESA) helpline and has told Disability […]

‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’
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A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is the clearest evidence yet that healthcare professionals working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are writing dishonest assessment reports. CeaJay Clem, from Gloucestershire, has chronic discoid lupus, which […]

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using lost appointment letters for face-to-face assessments as an excuse for turning down disabled people’s benefit claims, to help it cut spending on social security, it has been claimed. Concerns have been raised […]

Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Education

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Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many disabled students from entering higher education, without knowing how much money it would save or how many young disabled people would be affected. The admission came in response to a […]

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

By John Pring on 3rd August 2017 Category: Education

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’
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Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher education because of the introduction of the government’s new universal credit, according to MPs and peers who have written to the minister for employment. The seven MPs and peers, all members of […]

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