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New minister’s commitment to transparency under spotlight after regulator orders DWP to release deaths info

By John Pring on 18th July 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New minister’s commitment to transparency under spotlight after regulator orders DWP to release deaths info
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A new Labour minister’s commitment to transparency about the safety of universal credit has immediately been placed under the spotlight, after his department was ordered by a regulator to release vital information from secret reports into claimant deaths. As chair of […]

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws
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Systemic safeguarding flaws across the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been linked by its own civil servants to the deaths of multiple benefit claimants between 2018 and 2020, secret reports have revealed. Several of the 30 reports show continuing […]

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules
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A regulator has sided with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by ruling that an attempt by Disability News Service (DNS) to obtain more than 90 secret reviews into deaths linked to DWP’s actions was “vexatious”. Information commissioner John Edwards […]

DWP figures reveal sharp rise in secret benefit death reviews

By John Pring on 12th August 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures reveal sharp rise in secret benefit death reviews
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New figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have revealed that the number of secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants has increased sharply in the last couple of years. The figures, secured by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

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