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A tribunal has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay nearly £50,000 in damages to a Deaf man after repeatedly failing to provide him with the interpreters he needed for job-related interviews. Paul Rimmer said he believed his […]
A disabled campaigner who tried to take his own life in his local jobcentre has described how “anger and despair” at the imminent reassessment of both of his disability benefits drove him to the suicide attempt. David Rollins, from Orchardson Avenue, […]
The agency that regulates workplace health, safety and welfare had no written contact with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about claims that multiple work coaches had experienced “mental breakdowns” due to work-related stress, DWP has confirmed. The Health and […]
A disabled man who swallowed poison in a jobcentre in an attempt to take his own life, after becoming “overwhelmed” by the harmful actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has pleaded guilty to possessing a chemical weapon. David […]
Labour has called for an urgent government investigation into a “devastating” dossier of evidence that suggests the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “in a state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits system. Evidence submitted to […]
Whistleblowers have raised serious concerns about safeguarding failures by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that put the lives of benefit claimants at risk. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week how conditions at Oxford jobcentre became so stressful that […]
More than a third of the work coaches on a single floor of a jobcentre experienced a mental health crisis in less than a year, due to the “dysfunctional” Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its “toxic” policies, whistleblowers have […]
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) twice refused to launch an investigation into serious concerns that multiple work coaches on the same floor of a city centre jobcentre had experienced “mental breakdowns” because of work-related stress. The agency was told in […]
A disabled woman has described how she was repeatedly denied permission to communicate with her work coach by telephone, thanks to the “barbarian” benefits systems run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Alana Cooper, from Preston, is one of […]
A disabled woman left traumatised by the daily demands of the universal credit system took her own life just four days after being told she would need to attend a face-to-face meeting with a work coach, her family say. Rebecca*, a […]