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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hidden the truth from a coroner about its role in a disabled woman’s suicide, allowing ministers to avoid having to explain how they would prevent more benefit claimants taking their own lives. Helga […]
The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped her benefits has called for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the department’s actions. Joy Dove […]
A coroner has found that the decision of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to wrongly stop a disabled woman’s benefits after a string of safeguarding failings was the “trigger” for her to take her own life. Coroner Clare Bailey […]
Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings contributed to the mental distress of a disabled woman who took her own life after being left with less than three pounds in her bank accounts, a coroner has concluded. An inquest in Stockport […]
At least three legal firms are examining ways in which they could support disabled people and their organisations to challenge some of the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits in the courts. Public Law Project (PLP), Leigh Day and Bhatt Murphy […]
A disabled MP has warned the government that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “broken” and “not fit for purpose”, and that major changes to the social security system need to be co-designed with disabled people and benefit claimants. […]
Every one of a sample of about 100 disabled people forced onto universal credit is now receiving less in benefits than when they were transferred from so-called legacy benefits, analysis of their claims by lawyers has revealed. Many of the sample, […]
The equality watchdog has been accused of bowing to political pressure by failing to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to prevent further deaths of disabled benefit claimants, two years after promising to take legal action. It is now […]
The government has denied playing any role in deciding that a high-profile second inquest into a disabled woman’s suicide – linked closely to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – will clash with the Labour party conference. […]