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FoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry

By John Pring on 15th September 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

FoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry
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The equality watchdog’s new chair, who is set to lead an investigation into whether Tory welfare reforms breached disabled people’s human rights, worked for the government on key contracts at the heart of those reforms, Disability News Service can reveal. David […]

DWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews

By John Pring on 25th August 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite finally admitting that seven of them relate to people who took their own lives. DWP only released the information after […]

Information watchdog to probe DWP’s secret reviews on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 17th April 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information watchdog to probe DWP’s secret reviews on benefit deaths
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The information watchdog is to investigate the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its refusal to publish secret reviews into 49 benefit-related deaths. The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched the investigation into DWP’s failure to provide information requested by Disability […]

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