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Justice for Jodey Whiting

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal

By John Pring on 4th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to make a second attempt to secure permission to appeal against a high court ruling. Joy Dove is fighting to secure a second […]

DWP: The case for the prosecution

By John Pring on 2nd December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP: The case for the prosecution
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The first death was on New Year’s Eve 2011, a divorced woman in her early 50s who was found dead at her home in Scotland after taking her own life. She would later become known as Ms DE. She has never […]

Election 2019: Labour pledges inquiry into seven years of DWP benefit deaths

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Election 2019: Labour pledges inquiry into seven years of DWP benefit deaths
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A Labour government would set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its private sector contractors, the party has told Disability News Service. The […]

Mother of Jodey Whiting displays her broken heart outside DWP HQ

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mother of Jodey Whiting displays her broken heart outside DWP HQ
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The mother of a disabled woman who died as a result of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings stood outside its headquarters in Whitehall this week to remind civil servants and ministers how their actions caused her daughter’s death. Joy […]

Second charity backs Justice for Jodey following snub by 12 disability organisations

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Second charity backs Justice for Jodey following snub by 12 disability organisations
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A second national disability charity has joined Mind in backing a petition that calls for an independent inquiry into links between Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and […]

Secret PIP files show one in three assessments by Capita had significant flaws

By John Pring on 11th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret PIP files show one in three assessments by Capita had significant flaws
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More than a third of disability assessment reports completed by a government contractor have been found to be significantly flawed, according to secret government files. The proportion of substandard personal independence payment (PIP) reports completed by outsourcing giant Capita has risen […]

Disability charities reject request to back Jodey Whiting deaths petition

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disability charities reject request to back Jodey Whiting deaths petition
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Many of the country’s biggest disability charities have refused to back a petition that calls for an inquiry into the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The charities – none of […]

Jodey Whiting: Mum to demand truth from DWP in face-to-face meeting

By John Pring on 6th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Mum to demand truth from DWP in face-to-face meeting
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after repeated safeguarding failings by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to demand the truth about her daughter’s death in a meeting with a senior civil servant. Emma […]

Commons civil servants block DNS over DWP benefit deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commons civil servants block DNS over DWP benefit deaths cover-up
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House of Commons civil servants have blocked attempts to confirm that an influential MP is opposing efforts to highlight a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cover-up of deaths linked to its social security reforms. Disability News Service (DNS) has been […]

Senior MP calls on Rudd to act over DWP’s WCA deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Senior MP calls on Rudd to act over DWP’s WCA deaths cover-up
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A Labour MP has written to the work and pensions secretary to call for an inquiry into deaths linked to government social security reforms, and for evidence of criminal misconduct by ministers or civil servants to be passed to police. Debbie […]

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