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Benefits and Poverty

May 17, 2018 0

DWP sanctions claimants ‘by any means necessary’, MPs are told

A disabled campaigner has told MPs how she was thrown out of a shelter and forced to sleep in her college library after she was unfairly sanctioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Jen Fidai described yesterday (Wednesday)* how she spent nearly a year with no benefits after being wrongly sanctioned while

Ministers forced into sickness benefit u-turn over ‘sanction fodder’ measure

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Ministers have been forced to scrap a drastic change to benefit rules that meant seriously ill claimants found unfairly “fit for work” were no longer allowed to take an extended period of sickness absence, even if they had a sicknote from their GP. Under the new rules – introduced through a Department for Work

PIP claimant set to take DWP to court over refusal to allow him to use email

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A disabled benefit claimant is set to take the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court over its refusal to allow him to communicate with its civil servants via email. Mark Lucas is facing a reassessment of his personal independence payment (PIP) claim next month, but is refusing to return his claim form

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DWP sanctions claimants ‘by any means necessary’, MPs are told

Ministers forced into sickness benefit u-turn over ‘sanction fodder’ measure

PIP claimant set to take DWP to court over refusal to allow him to use email