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Secret DWP report reveals unmet needs of disability benefit claimants

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret DWP report reveals unmet needs of disability benefit claimants
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Many disabled people who receive disability benefits have been unable to afford essential living costs such as rent, heating or food, even before the current cost-of-living crisis, according to a report that ministers had fought to keep secret. A watered-down version […]

MPs to force publication of ‘unmet needs’ report following Coffey’s ‘repeated obstruction’

By John Pring on 20th January 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs to force publication of ‘unmet needs’ report following Coffey’s ‘repeated obstruction’
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MPs are to use their parliamentary powers to force the publication of a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report that found disabled benefit claimants had widespread “unmet needs”. The action follows the repeated refusals of work and pensions secretary Therese […]

Only major government funding will solve access problems, say rail operators

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Transport

Only major government funding will solve access problems, say rail operators
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Rail operators believe that only “major” government funding will solve the accessibility problems at stations across the country, a new report published by the Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed. The report, written by the independent research organisation NatCen on DfT’s […]

Coffey given one last chance to publish ‘unmet needs’ report

By John Pring on 22nd December 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey given one last chance to publish ‘unmet needs’ report
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has been given a “final chance” to release a report that found disabled benefit claimants had “unmet needs”, before MPs use their powers to publish it themselves. Stephen Timms, the Labour chair of the Commons […]

Coffey ‘is damaging disabled people’s trust in DWP’ over ‘unmet needs’ report

By John Pring on 9th December 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey ‘is damaging disabled people’s trust in DWP’ over ‘unmet needs’ report
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has been accused by a senior MP of damaging disabled people’s trust in her department by failing to publish a report that concluded that claimants of disability benefits had “unmet needs”. The report, commissioned by […]

DWP refuses to publish report that found disabled claimants had ‘unmet needs’

By John Pring on 2nd December 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP refuses to publish report that found disabled claimants had ‘unmet needs’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ensured an independent report was watered down after it concluded that claimants of disability benefits had “unmet needs”, a whistleblower has revealed. Disability News Service (DNS) has been told that DWP made it clear […]

MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats

By John Pring on 11th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats
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Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why they failed to ask the minister for disabled people about shocking figures that suggest attempted suicides among people claiming out-of-work disability benefits doubled between 2007 and 2014. The work and […]

Samaritans refuses to criticise government over suicide report’s ESA failings

By John Pring on 21st December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Samaritans refuses to criticise government over suicide report’s ESA failings
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A mental health charity has refused to criticise the government for failing to warn local services that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. Samaritans – the leading charity working on […]

‘Staggering’ ESA suicide figures prompt calls for inquiry and prosecution of ministers

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Staggering’ ESA suicide figures prompt calls for inquiry and prosecution of ministers
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“Staggering” new figures show that the proportion of people claiming the main out-of-work disability benefit who have attempted suicide doubled between 2007 and 2014. The new analysis of NHS statistics, being published for the first time by Disability News Service (DNS), […]

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk
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The Department of Health (DH) has refused to say why it failed to warn NHS bodies and other local services that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. DH published the […]

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