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Prime minister ‘should be ashamed’ after he fails to provide evidence for latest ‘fit for work’ attack

By John Pring on 20th February 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Prime minister ‘should be ashamed’ after he fails to provide evidence for latest ‘fit for work’ attack
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The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work. Sir Keir Starmer made the […]

Sunak faces verdict on misleading ‘fit for work’ stats, just days after his Labour tax row ‘lies’

By John Pring on 6th June 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sunak faces verdict on misleading ‘fit for work’ stats, just days after his Labour tax row ‘lies’
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The statistics regulator will rule tomorrow on whether the prime minister misled voters around the growth in disabled people found not fit for work, just two days after the same watchdog promised to investigate his claims about Labour’s tax plans. The […]

DWP finally publishes long-awaited universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats

By John Pring on 15th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP finally publishes long-awaited universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published its first set of figures that show how many disabled people who receive universal credit are being found fit for work after an assessment. It has taken more than four years […]

DWP silent on figures suggesting ‘fit for work’ deaths may have fallen

By John Pring on 14th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP silent on figures suggesting ‘fit for work’ deaths may have fallen
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Figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) suggest that the proportion of disabled people dying soon after being found fit for work may have fallen since the early years of the much-criticised work capability assessment (WCA). DWP has […]

IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making

By John Pring on 28th August 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

IDS announces ‘fitness for work’ U-turn that was five years in the making
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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith appears set to scrap the “fitness for work” test championed by successive Labour, coalition and Conservative governments, but there are fears that its replacement could prove even more damaging to disabled people. Duncan Smith […]

MP to quiz ministers over Gunnyeon’s Maximus WCA role

By John Pring on 23rd January 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

MP to quiz ministers over Gunnyeon’s Maximus WCA role
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An MP is to ask ministers why a former senior civil servant had to wait just six months before working for a private sector company on two disability contracts he led on at the Department for Work and Pensions. Disability News […]

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