Michael O’Sullivan

Benefits and Poverty

Paul Litchfield giving evidence to a Commons committee

April 26, 2018 0

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing to show vital documents that linked its “fitness for work” assessment with the deaths of benefit claimants to an independent expert it hired to review the test. Dr Paul Litchfield published the final two independent reviews of the work capability assessment (WCA) in

Benefits and Poverty

March 10, 2016

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Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details

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A tribunal judge has hinted that he may order the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital information from 49 secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of benefit claimants. Judge Andrew Bartlett QC was chairing a three-person tribunal panel that was hearing an appeal brought by Disability News Service (DNS)

Benefits and Poverty

A wheelchair-user sits in front of a stage, while the grass is covered by white flowers

February 25, 2016

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DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information

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Disability News Service (DNS) will this week ask a tribunal to require the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish information about secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. DNS has been trying since August 2014 to find out what actions ministers took in the wake of deaths

Benefits and Poverty

February 25, 2016

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Duncan Smith and Grayling silent over links to WCA suicide reports

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Ministers and senior civil servants are refusing to say if they approved documents drawn up following the suicides of two disabled men that were connected to flaws in the government’s “fitness for work” test. Last week, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimed it had unearthed a “draft” report that was written in

Politics

February 11, 2016

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Abrahams drags New Labour into Stephen Carré suicide report cover-up

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The shadow minister for disabled people has implicated New Labour in an apparent cover-up of the government’s failure to respond to a coroner’s report on the suicide of a disabled man found “fit for work”. Debbie Abrahams has repeatedly refused to criticise – or even comment on – the failure of Iain Duncan Smith

Benefits and Poverty

Stephen Carre smiling and stroking a black cat

February 4, 2016

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Government departments and judiciary in ‘fit for work’ suicide ‘cover-up’

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Two government departments – and the judiciary – appear to be conspiring to prevent the release of information that would show how ministers ignored an opportunity to prevent the “fitness for work” test causing disabled claimants to take their own lives. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been asked key questions about

Benefits and Poverty

November 9, 2015

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WCA death scandal: Ministers ‘failed to pass 2010 suicide report to Harrington’

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Ministers appear to have failed to hand a crucial report about the work capability assessment – warning it put at risk the lives of thousands of people with mental health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to review the test. An investigation by Disability News Service (DNS) suggests that work and pensions secretary

Benefits and Poverty

Head and shoulders of Chris Grayling talking

November 9, 2015

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WCA death scandal: Grayling ordered assessment roll-out, despite coroner’s warning

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Ministers appear to have allowed a controversial disability benefits assessment to be rolled out to hundreds of thousands of long-term claimants with mental health conditions, even though a coroner had warned it was a threat to their lives. Employment minister Chris Grayling (pictured) and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith decided in the summer of

Benefits and Poverty

November 9, 2015

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WCA death scandal: ‘DWP and Atos killed my son’

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The father of a man who took his own life after being found “fit for work” believes his son would still be alive if he had not been failed by the benefits system the government and its contractor, Atos. Stephen Carre, 41, from Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, died in January 2010, after the Department for

Benefits and Poverty

October 30, 2015

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Cameron quizzed again on death of Michael O’Sullivan and DWP’s secret reviews

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The prime minister has been questioned in the House of Commons for the second consecutive week about the death of a disabled man who took his own life after being wrongly found “fit for work”. Angus Robertson, the MP who leads the SNP group in Westminster, asked David Cameron in prime minister’s questions about

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