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Benefits and Poverty

Head and shoulders of CeaJay Clem, showing scarring around nose and mouth

August 17, 2017 0

‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’

A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is the clearest evidence yet that healthcare professionals working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are writing dishonest assessment reports. CeaJay Clem, from Gloucestershire, has chronic discoid lupus, which has caused a significant facial disfigurement (pictured). But despite the impact of the

Benefits and Poverty

August 17, 2017 0

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its promises not to harass a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. Last year, DWP publicly apologised – although not directly to David* – after repeatedly contacting him about his claim for personal independence payment (PIP),

Politics

May 18, 2017

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Election 2017: Plaid Cymru call for social security powers… so they can sack Maximus

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Plaid Cymru have called in their election manifesto for the Welsh government to be given responsibility for running the social security system in Wales, which would allow it to ban private companies from carrying out disability benefit assessments. The policy mirrors what has happened with some benefits in Scotland, with the Scottish government announcing

Employment

May 4, 2017

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Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

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Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme were refused support workers, while one was bullied into resigning, documents obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The internal reports – finally released following a freedom of information request submitted last June – show the scale of concern

Benefits and Poverty

April 27, 2017

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Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints

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The nursing regulator has finally clarified how many disabled people have lodged complaints about nurses who have carried out disability benefit assessments for government contractors. The figure produced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is its third attempt to produce accurate statistics on how many complaints it has received about the conduct of

Benefits and Poverty

Hundreds of white flowers lying on grass

March 16, 2017

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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

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Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the government’s “fitness for work” process has caused a deterioration in many people’s mental health which they have failed to recover from, and has even led to thoughts of suicide. The research, Mental Health And Unemployment In Scotland, was carried out by academics at

Benefits and Poverty

March 9, 2017

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Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

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One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits appears to have admitted that it is standard practice – approved by the government – to ask claimants with mental health conditions why they failed to take their own lives. A leading clinical psychologist has warned this week that

Employment

February 16, 2017

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G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

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Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme to find jobs for disabled people and other marginalised groups. The 11 organisations that have been successful in the bidding process will be allowed to tender for the back-to-work contracts that will be offered

Activism and Campaigning

Protesters outside a jobcentre holding Lawrence Bond placards

January 26, 2017

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Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

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About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in a protest and vigil to mark the death of a disabled man who died minutes after leaving a jobcentre… six months after a government contractor found him “fit for work”. Lawrence Bond is said to have collapsed on the pavement shortly after leaving Kentish

Employment

Extract from membership list showing Boobylicious

November 10, 2016

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What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident

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A company that tried to halve its disabled advisors’ pay; a religious order responsible for decades of abuse of disabled people; and a police force facing two discrimination inquiries… are just three of the employers that have described themselves as “disability confident”. The trio are a sample of more than 2,400 organisations that have

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