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DWP and assessors fail to refer claimants at risk of harm to social services, research finds

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

DWP and assessors fail to refer claimants at risk of harm to social services, research finds
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its private sector contractors have been failing for years to alert local authorities to concerns about benefit claimants whose safety was at risk, “shocking” new research has shown. Years of previous research have […]

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel

By John Pring on 14th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel
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A disabled woman has handed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a petition of more than 200,000 names in a bid to stop companies forcing claimants to travel long distances to attend face-to-face benefit assessments. Claudette Lawrence only launched the […]

Reaction to Rudd’s reforms: Tinkering, crumbs and fears of a Trojan horse for cuts

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

Reaction to Rudd’s reforms: Tinkering, crumbs and fears of a Trojan horse for cuts
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about a series of reforms to the disability benefits assessment system announced by work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd. Rudd secured broadly positive coverage of her reforms from the mainstream media this week, […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP ignored five ‘safeguarding’ chances before WCA suicide

By John Pring on 21st February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: DWP ignored five ‘safeguarding’ chances before WCA suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed five times to follow its own safeguarding rules in the weeks leading up to the suicide of a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress, an independent investigation has found. The […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP continued to phone woman who took her own life, inquiry finds

By John Pring on 21st February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: DWP continued to phone woman who took her own life, inquiry finds
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) continued to phone and write to a disabled woman who had taken her own life after having her benefits stopped, an independent investigation has found. The report by the Independent Case Examiner (ICE), Joanna […]

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 […]

Care watchdog criticised over abandoned bid to replace service-user contracts

By John Pring on 24th January 2019 Category: Independent Living

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The care watchdog is facing heavy criticism after being forced to abandon a year-long attempt to find organisations to run a programme that sends expert service-users to assist on inspections of care homes, hospitals and care agencies across England. The Experts […]

Traumatised child rape survivor harassed again by DWP as he waits to give evidence

By John Pring on 3rd January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Traumatised child rape survivor harassed again by DWP as he waits to give evidence
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A traumatised benefit claimant has accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of “sheer malice” after it again broke its promise to stop harassing him while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. DWP’s contractor Maximus […]

‘Fit for work’ assessor suspended for describing examination that did not take place

By John Pring on 21st June 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Fit for work’ assessor suspended for describing examination that did not take place
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An occupational therapist who carried out a “misleading” benefit assessment has been suspended for a year after regulators found she reported carrying out a physical examination of a disabled man that did not take place. Paru Vekaria has shown no remorse […]

DWP figures on ‘unacceptable’ WCA reports cast doubt on decisions made on tens of thousands of ESA claims

By John Pring on 10th May 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures on ‘unacceptable’ WCA reports cast doubt on decisions made on tens of thousands of ESA claims
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Tens of thousands of “fitness for work” benefit claims could have been decided by civil servants on evidence from assessment reports that should have been rejected because their quality was “unacceptable”, government figures suggest. The concerns about the way Department for […]

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