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COMMENT: Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants

By John Pring on 14th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

COMMENT: Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants
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After 21 months of smokescreens excuses, obstruction and secrecy, work and pensions ministers have finally been forced to publish some of the conclusions reached by their own civil servants about the mistakes that led to 49 benefit claimants losing their lives. […]

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 […]

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