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Ministers push ahead with single face-to-face assessments for disability benefits

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers push ahead with single face-to-face assessments for disability benefits
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Ministers are pushing ahead with controversial plans to merge two disability benefit assessments into one, despite concerns raised by disabled campaigners. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wants to offer a single face-to-face assessment – with the agreement of the […]

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording
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An MP has suggested the government was “not telling us the truth” when it promised last year to allow all disabled people to record their personal independence payment (PIP) face-to-face assessments. The claim came in a week in which the Department […]

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 […]

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Employment

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call
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Disabled activists have called for a Labour MP to resign as chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, after he called for employers to be allowed to pay some disabled people less than the minimum wage. Frank Field (pictured) […]

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies
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A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who assess disabled people for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP). Disability News Service (DNS) has been investigating allegations that healthcare professionals […]

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

By John Pring on 6th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation
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The minister for disabled people has been accused of making “false promises” that she would reduce the living costs of people facing cuts of nearly £30 a week to their out-of-work disability benefits.   From this week, new employment and support […]

Disabled people face institutional disablism from employers, says damning report

By John Pring on 8th December 2016 Category: Employment

Disabled people face institutional disablism from employers, says damning report
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Disabled people are facing “institutional disablism” at the hands of both public and private sector employers, according to a new parliamentary report that examines how the government can meet its pledge to halve the disability employment gap. The report by the […]

Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts
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The minister for disabled people is working on urgent plans to cut the living costs faced by disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits, she has told MPs. Penny Mordaunt was responding to warnings of the “human cost” of “bizarre” government plans […]

Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Employment

Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target
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The minister for disabled people misled a Commons committee about the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap… less than two minutes after she began giving evidence. Penny Mordaunt (pictured) began speaking to the work and pensions select committee at […]

Labour conference: Young campaigner calls for fellow workers to spread the word

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Employment

Labour conference: Young campaigner calls for fellow workers to spread the word
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A young campaigner has called on other disabled people to share their experiences of successful employment in order to help narrow the disability employment gap. Lauren Pitt told a fringe meeting at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool that she wanted to […]

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