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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted in a secret paper that the cumulative effect of multiple errors or “inaction” on benefit claims caused situations to “spiral out of control for vulnerable customers” and even led to their deaths. DWP […]
A tribunal has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release a report that describes the impact of its errors on disabled benefit claimants, following a three-year fight to keep the document secret. The information rights tribunal has concluded […]
A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. The […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to waste thousands of pounds of public money fighting two rulings by the information commissioner that it must release secret reports affecting millions of disabled people. It is the latest example of […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told by a tribunal to release a secret, high-level report that is likely to expose the flaws in the support it provides to “vulnerable” claimants of universal credit. The information rights tribunal […]