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Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details
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A tribunal judge has hinted that he may order the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital information from 49 secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of benefit claimants. Judge Andrew Bartlett QC was chairing a three-person […]

DWP carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service

By John Pring on 17th April 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

DWP carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out its threat to stop answering any questions from the country’s only disability news agency. DWP’s chief press officer (disability) had previously warned that he and his staff would stop dealing with […]

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