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DWP figures ‘show how rise in staff workload led to mental health crisis’

By John Pring on 14th March 2024 Category: Employment

DWP figures ‘show how rise in staff workload led to mental health crisis’
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A huge increase in the workload faced by civil servants managing universal credit cases led to significant increases in how many of them took time off after experiencing mental distress and other ill-health, new government figures suggest. The figures, secured through […]

Concern over new DWP foodbank rules

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern over new DWP foodbank rules
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Disabled campaigners and union allies have raised concerns about a new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) policy that could make it harder for claimants to access food parcels. They spoke out after the Guardian reported that jobcentre officials had been […]

DWP boss dismisses union warning of mental ill-health ‘epidemic’ and staffing crisis

By John Pring on 11th January 2024 Category: Employment

DWP boss dismisses union warning of mental ill-health ‘epidemic’ and staffing crisis
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The head of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed evidence from scores of his own employees that his department is experiencing a “staffing crisis” and a “mental ill-health epidemic”. The “devastating” dossier was compiled by the Public and […]

Work coaches with no GCSEs could decide on ‘fit for work activity’, DWP admits

By John Pring on 4th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Work coaches with no GCSEs could decide on ‘fit for work activity’, DWP admits
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Job coaches with no academic qualifications could be making life-changing – and potentially life-ending – decisions on whether a disabled person must carry out work-related activity, if the government goes ahead with its plans to scrap the “fitness for work” test. […]

DWP admits court defeat after universal credit discrimination led to suicide thoughts

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits court defeat after universal credit discrimination led to suicide thoughts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by months of failures by universal credit advisers and jobcentres. A legal […]

DWP staff admit inflicting ‘psychological harm’ on claimants during coalition years

By John Pring on 1st April 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff admit inflicting ‘psychological harm’ on claimants during coalition years
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff and managers deliberately inflicted psychological harm on benefit claimants, engaged in unofficial sanctioning targets, and pushed disabled people into work despite the risk to their health, shocking new testimony has revealed. The evidence comes […]

Book exposes harassment, abuse and neglect of benefit claimants in austerity years

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Book exposes harassment, abuse and neglect of benefit claimants in austerity years
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A new book by a campaigning journalist has exposed how disabled people and others were harassed, neglected and abused by the state bodies they were forced to rely on to survive during the years of austerity. In Abusing Power*, Kate Belgrave […]

‘Propaganda’ concerns over DWP’s second jobcentre fly-on-the-wall series

By John Pring on 14th November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Propaganda’ concerns over DWP’s second jobcentre fly-on-the-wall series
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Channel 4 and BBC have attempted to justify plans to broadcast two separate fly-on-the-wall documentary series based in jobcentres, both of which could enable ministers to continue their campaign to undermine critical reporting on their “toxic” universal credit benefit system. Only […]

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for help to design a social security system of dignity, respect and trust
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Disabled people and others with personal experience of claiming benefits are leading a ground-breaking project to devise a new social security system, in which claimants would be treated with dignity, trust and respect. The Commission on Social Security, led by Experts […]

DWP admits destroying report on safety failings in jobcentres

By John Pring on 4th April 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits destroying report on safety failings in jobcentres
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) destroyed a damaging internal report about its failure to ensure the safety of benefit claimants in jobcentres, preventing it being released under freedom of information laws. The report into safeguarding failures in south London […]

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