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Michael O'Sullivan

Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on 13th June 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide
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Official documents link two former Conservative work and pensions ministers – including would-be party leader Penny Mordaunt – to a government cover-up of how a disabled man took his own life after being wrongly found fit for work. The email and […]

Decade-long quest for justice ‘proves DWP was responsible for our father’s death’

By John Pring on 7th March 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Decade-long quest for justice ‘proves DWP was responsible for our father’s death’
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Two children of a disabled man whose suicide was triggered by being wrongly found “fit for work” have told MPs how their decade-long search for justice has proved the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was responsible for their father’s death. […]

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Significant’ victory over DWP ‘cruelty’ after family’s nine-year WCA death battle
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The family of a disabled man who took his own life nine years ago after being unfairly found fit for work have welcomed a “small but significant” tribunal ruling that has once again highlighted the “cruelty” of the Department for Work […]

WCA death doctor: DWP put ‘immense pressure’ on Atos to find claimants fit for work

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

WCA death doctor: DWP put ‘immense pressure’ on Atos to find claimants fit for work
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A company paid to assess disabled people’s fitness for work was put under “immense pressure” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to find claimants ineligible for out-of-work disability benefits, official records have revealed. DWP has insisted for years that […]

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

By John Pring on 26th April 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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

Tribunal could order DWP to release key benefit deaths details

By John Pring on 10th March 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

Duncan Smith and Grayling silent over links to WCA suicide reports

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 11th February 2016 Category: Politics

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 4th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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. […]

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