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Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’

By John Pring on 25th June 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coronavirus: Government’s failure to offer video PIP appeals ‘is discrimination’
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The government’s continuing failure to allow benefit appeals to be heard via video conferencing is discriminating against disabled claimants, say welfare rights experts. Many disabled people are being forced to ask for their tribunals to be postponed, because they are only […]

The shocking truth about disability benefits: Successful appeals double in a decade

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

The shocking truth about disability benefits: Successful appeals double in a decade
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Disabled people are almost twice as likely to win their disability benefit appeal than they were 10 years ago, at the start of almost a decade of Conservative control of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). DWP has this week […]

Two government departments ‘are breaking the law over PIP recording failure’

By John Pring on 6th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Two government departments ‘are breaking the law over PIP recording failure’
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Two government departments are breaching equality laws and their human rights obligations by failing to ensure that disabled people can record their face-to-face benefit assessments and appeal tribunals, legal researchers have concluded. They say the delay by the Department for Work […]

Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues

By John Pring on 17th January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues
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The government is discriminating against disabled benefit claimants by failing to install equipment at tribunal venues that would allow them to record what happens at their social security appeals, according to university researchers. Leeds University’s International Disability Law Clinic (IDLC) has […]

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