The first death was on New Year’s Eve 2011, a divorced woman in her early 50s who was found dead at her home in Scotland after taking her own life. She would later become known as Ms DE. She has never […]
DWP: The case for the prosecution
Iain Duncan Smith
The shocking truth about disability benefits: Successful appeals double in a decade
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 […]
Would-be MP ‘motivated to oust Duncan Smith by late mother’s benefits ordeal’
The politician aiming to oust Iain Duncan Smith at the next general election has described being motivated by the need to expose the “heartless” reforms he introduced as work and pensions secretary, and their impact on her late mother. Labour’s Dr […]
New EU figures demolish government claims of ‘world-leading generosity’ on disability
New figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have demolished ministerial claims that the UK is one of the most generous countries in the world in its support for disabled people. Rather than being one of the most generous, the UK’s […]
Duncan Smith refuses to apologise over ‘exploitative’ comments
The architect of many of the government’s most unpopular and flawed welfare reforms, Iain Duncan Smith, has refused to apologise for “exploitative” comments he made about disabled people and employment. The former work and pensions secretary (pictured) is reported to have […]
Lib Dem conference: Lloyd backtracks on support for Duncan Smith
A Liberal Democrat MP who has supported Tory former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has admitted he gave him “more benefit of the doubt” than he should have done during the five years of the coalition government. Stephen Lloyd, […]
New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s Jared O’Mara spoke out just weeks after beating former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to […]
Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the UK’s progress on implementing the disability rights convention may be ignoring links between the government’s welfare reforms and the deaths of benefit claimants. This week, the UN committee on the rights of […]
Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges
The mother of a disabled man who starved to death after he was found “fit for work” and lost his out-of-work disability benefits has called for ministers to face criminal charges. Jill Gant says work and pensions ministers should be tried […]
Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer
Government ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their much-criticised “fitness for work” assessment, new evidence suggests. A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a Disability […]