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

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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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* […]

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

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Politics

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 […]

Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

By John Pring on 4th May 2017 Category: Employment

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 […]

Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints

By John Pring on 27th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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

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

‘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 […]

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

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

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Employment

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 10th November 2016 Category: Employment

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 […]

‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death
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A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the death of a disabled man who had a fatal heart attack an hour after being told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop his benefits. Alan McArdle, […]

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