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Inquiry call after ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘admits it has no safeguarding policy’

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Inquiry call after ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘admits it has no safeguarding policy’
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The government’s “fitness for work” contractor appears to have no written policy on how to protect the safety of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits, despite years of evidence linking the assessment with deaths and serious harm. Only last week, it emerged […]

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why it failed to release the results of a pilot project that was supposed to correct a fatal flaw in its “fitness for work” test. DWP had promised a judge […]

Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry

By John Pring on 9th February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry
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The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian Green to demand an independent inquiry into benefit claimants whose deaths have been linked to the failings of his department. The letter has been signed by the Green Party’s co-leader, […]

Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges

By John Pring on 9th February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges
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The mother of a disabled man who starved to death after he was found “fit for work” and lost his out-of-work disability benefits has called for ministers to face criminal charges. Jill Gant says work and pensions ministers should be tried […]

Ministers look to loophole to hide truth on benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Ministers look to loophole to hide truth on benefit-related deaths
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Ministers have admitted they are considering using a legal loophole to avoid publishing the results of secret reviews into 60 benefit-related deaths. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted to Disability News Service (DNS) last month that it had carried […]

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