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PIP cuts will cause further deaths, say disabled relatives of claimants who died due to previous DWP reforms

By John Pring on 20th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP cuts will cause further deaths, say disabled relatives of claimants who died due to previous DWP reforms
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Three disabled people who lost relatives as a result of past reforms to disability benefits have spoken of their horror at the Labour government’s plans to cut billions of pounds from the system. Tuesday’s Pathways to Work green paper announced cuts […]

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments

By John Pring on 19th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments
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Two disabled campaigners whose brothers’ deaths were closely linked to the actions of the outsourcing company Atos have welcomed the announcement that its 20 years of carrying out disability assessments for the government will end next year. From September next year, […]

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’

By John Pring on 28th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’
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Campaigners who spent years exposing the deaths of countless benefit claimants have spoken this week of the “abysmal failure” of MPs who refused to question the minister for disabled people about research linking her government with those tragedies. The draft version […]

Months of PIP distress ‘hastened my brother’s death’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Months of PIP distress ‘hastened my brother’s death’
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The brother of a disabled man who was denied disability benefits when he was dying has launched a petition calling on the government to scrap the outsourcing of all face-to-face assessments to private contractors. James Oliver, from Hastings – the constituency […]

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