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Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments

By John Pring on 24th January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments
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Disabled activists are hoping to use a parliamentary meeting next month to persuade more MPs that action must be taken to prevent further deaths caused by the government’s much-criticised fitness for work test. The First Do No Harm lobby on 13 […]

DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have gone back on its promise to a tribunal to address a fatal flaw in its “fitness for work” test that has led to the deaths of multiple benefit claimants with mental […]

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

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

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why it failed to release the results of a pilot project that was supposed to correct a fatal flaw in its “fitness for work” test. DWP had promised a judge […]

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