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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) […]

Minister denies lying to MPs over Disability Confident history

By John Pring on 12th July 2018 Category: Employment

Minister denies lying to MPs over Disability Confident history
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The minister for disabled people has denied lying to an influential committee of MPs about the government’s much-criticised disability employment scheme. Sarah Newton’s claims about Disability Confident were exposed yesterday (Wednesday) just as her boss, work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, […]

MPs raise concerns with McVey over ‘stress and poverty’ caused by WRAG cuts

By John Pring on 12th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs raise concerns with McVey over ‘stress and poverty’ caused by WRAG cuts
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Cross-party MPs have raised a series of concerns with work and pensions secretary Esther McVey about the government’s treatment of disabled people on out-of-work benefits. Members of the Commons work and pensions select committee were questioning McVey (pictured) more than a year […]

Charities fail to tell MPs about clauses that ‘prevent them attacking McVey and DWP’

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Charities fail to tell MPs about clauses that ‘prevent them attacking McVey and DWP’
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Representatives of disability charities have given evidence to MPs about the impact of government social security reforms on disabled people, without disclosing that they signed contracts preventing them from attacking work and pensions secretary Esther McVey. Senior figures from Shaw Trust […]

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again

By John Pring on 21st June 2018 Category: Human Rights

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again
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The minister for disabled people has been caught misleading MPs – again – as she tried to defend her government’s repeated breaches of the UN disability convention. It was the second time in five months that Sarah Newton (pictured) has misled […]

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