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Esther McVey

OECD figures expose DWP claims of disability spending ‘generosity’

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

OECD figures expose DWP claims of disability spending ‘generosity’
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Repeated claims by the government that the UK is one of the most generous major economies in the world when it comes to spending on disabled people have been exposed as highly misleading by official figures. The Department for Work and […]

McVey failed to respond to letter about benefit deaths cover-up, DWP admits

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

McVey failed to respond to letter about benefit deaths cover-up, DWP admits
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A Tory leadership contender left her job as work and pensions secretary without answering key questions from an MP about links between her department and the deaths of benefit claimants, her former department has confirmed. Esther McVey (pictured) resigned her position […]

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Politics

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Esther McVey has quit as work and pensions secretary without answering questions she was asked by MPs four months ago about whether her department covered up links between its hated fitness for work test and the deaths of benefit claimants. McVey […]

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income
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The failure of ministers to make a key change to the way the government will move existing benefit claimants onto universal credit could see hundreds of thousands of disabled people left without any income at all, campaigners fear. Work and pensions […]

Labour resists ‘scrap universal credit’ call, as Tory blames ‘fecklessness’ for food bank use

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour resists ‘scrap universal credit’ call, as Tory blames ‘fecklessness’ for food bank use
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Labour has failed in a bid to force the government to publish secret papers that would show the true financial impact of universal credit on benefit claimants. In a debate lasting nearly four hours yesterday (Wednesday), Labour and SNP MPs lined […]

Tory conference: Charity’s silence on universal credit deaths, hours after minister announces £51m funding

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory conference: Charity’s silence on universal credit deaths, hours after minister announces £51m funding
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A charity has refused to criticise the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over four deaths linked to universal credit, hours after a minister announced it would receive tens of millions of pounds to support claimants on the new benefit system. […]

New job stats raise questions over ministers’ boasts on disability employment

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Employment

New job stats raise questions over ministers’ boasts on disability employment
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New figures obtained by a disabled people’s organisation – after ministers refused to commission the work themselves – appear to show how the government relies on the growth in self-employment and part-time jobs to exaggerate its success in increasing disability employment. […]

DWP refuses to pay £125 to discover number of disabled people in full-time jobs

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Employment

DWP refuses to pay £125 to discover number of disabled people in full-time jobs
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Ministers are refusing to commission work that would cost just £125 and would show how many disabled people are in full-time paid employment, and how that number has changed under successive Tory-led governments. Ministers, including the current work and pensions secretary […]

DWP agrees to pay thousands to disabled duo in universal credit court case

By John Pring on 2nd August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP agrees to pay thousands to disabled duo in universal credit court case
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed to pay compensation to two disabled men who saw their benefits drastically reduced when they were forced onto the new universal credit. The high court had ruled in June that DWP […]

McVey’s U-turn means DWP will pay at least £100 million more to disabled claimants

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

McVey’s U-turn means DWP will pay at least £100 million more to disabled claimants
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Disabled people will be paid more than £100 million extra in backdated benefits owed by the government, after a U-turn by work and pensions secretary Esther McVey on the eve of a court hearing. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]

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