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The Liberal Democrats are set to try to use the government’s new Hillsborough Law to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release secret reports into the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. For years, the department has refused to […]
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system. The […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secretly weakened its own rules on when it should investigate the deaths of benefit claimants who take their own lives. Four years ago, the department told the National Audit Office (NAO) that it […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been asked to explain why it is rejecting so many requests from its own civil servants to carry out secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants. DWP’s top civil servant was questioned […]
The new work and pensions secretary has been told it will be an “absolute kick in the teeth” for disabled people if he continues delaying a legal agreement that would force his department to improve its treatment of disabled claimants. The […]
A disabled woman whose body was found in her flat months after all her benefits had been removed had been hounded for years by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and repeatedly failed by other public bodies, documents have shown. […]