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Nurse used benefit assessment info to launch campaign of harassment that left disabled neighbour suicidal

By John Pring on 6th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Nurse used benefit assessment info to launch campaign of harassment that left disabled neighbour suicidal
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A nurse who carried out benefit assessments on behalf of the government obtained a medical report belonging to his disabled neighbour and then used it to launch a campaign of bullying and harassment that left him suicidal. Carlo* has told Disability […]

Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths

By John Pring on 26th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has ignored a question on why she shared a platform at her party’s annual conference with an outsourcing giant linked to the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Kendall was speaking at the fringe event on […]

Contracts reveal how companies should carry out benefit assessments over the next five years

By John Pring on 8th February 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Contracts reveal how companies should carry out benefit assessments over the next five years
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Key details reveal how four private sector providers have been told to carry out health and disability benefit assessments over the next five years, after being awarded £2.8 billion-worth of contracts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The contracts […]

‘Overwhelmed’ claimant admits chemical weapon charge after jobcentre suicide attempt

By John Pring on 21st December 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Overwhelmed’ claimant admits chemical weapon charge after jobcentre suicide attempt
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A disabled man who swallowed poison in a jobcentre in an attempt to take his own life, after becoming “overwhelmed” by the harmful actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has pleaded guilty to possessing a chemical weapon. David […]

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments

By John Pring on 19th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments
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Two disabled campaigners whose brothers’ deaths were closely linked to the actions of the outsourcing company Atos have welcomed the announcement that its 20 years of carrying out disability assessments for the government will end next year. From September next year, […]

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos

By John Pring on 1st June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos
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The government has awarded five-year disability assessment contracts worth more than £560 million to the outsourcing giant Capita, on the same day that a safeguarding review linked the company to the death of a young disabled mum. Last week, the safeguarding […]

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws
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Systemic safeguarding flaws across the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been linked by its own civil servants to the deaths of multiple benefit claimants between 2018 and 2020, secret reports have revealed. Several of the 30 reports show continuing […]

Call for urgent inquiry into ‘covert surveillance’ in benefit assessments

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for urgent inquiry into ‘covert surveillance’ in benefit assessments
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MPs are calling for an urgent government investigation into the use of “covert surveillance” of disabled people by the private sector companies paid to assess eligibility for disability benefits. It comes in a report by the Commons work and pensions committee, […]

DWP assessment firms ‘still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports’

By John Pring on 19th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP assessment firms ‘still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports’
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Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for disability benefits are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won contracts to carry them out. An audit of assessment […]

No DWP decision on £2.8 billion assessment contracts, 21 months on

By John Pring on 5th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

No DWP decision on £2.8 billion assessment contracts, 21 months on
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has still not decided which companies will be paid a share of £2.8 billion to carry out health and disability benefit assessments, nearly two years after it first published information about the contracts. The […]

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