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DWP staff repeatedly failed to follow suicide threat guidance, secret death reviews reveal

By John Pring on 10th December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff repeatedly failed to follow suicide threat guidance, secret death reviews reveal
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when claimants threaten to take their own lives, following secret reviews into as many as six suicides linked to the benefit system. The reviews suggest […]

DWP refuses to publish information from secret reviews into benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 3rd December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP refuses to publish information from secret reviews into benefit-related deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release recommendations made by its own secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to its actions. The refusal to release the information from reports completed over […]

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits destroying secret reports into benefit-related deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted destroying its own secret reports into suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants. The admission has added to growing calls for an independent inquiry into links between DWP policies and procedures and […]

Caxton House cover-up: DWP hid benefit deaths papers from WCA review team

By John Pring on 9th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Caxton House cover-up: DWP hid benefit deaths papers from WCA review team
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted failing to send its own independent reviewer documents that ministers knew would have linked their fitness for work test with the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. Following intervention from the Information Commissioner’s […]

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Politics

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Esther McVey has quit as work and pensions secretary without answering questions she was asked by MPs four months ago about whether her department covered up links between its hated fitness for work test and the deaths of benefit claimants. McVey […]

DWP breaks law over secret reports on universal credit deaths

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP breaks law over secret reports on universal credit deaths
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release evidence that would show how many secret reports it has compiled into the deaths of claimants of its new universal credit, in a fresh breach of freedom of information laws. […]

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Four opposition parties demand DWP answers over WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Two opposition parties are writing urgent letters to work and pensions secretary Esther McVey – while a third is demanding an investigation – about a possible cover-up over documents linking the “fitness for work” test with the deaths of benefit claimants. […]

DWP is failing ‘vulnerable’ claimants of universal credit, says watchdog

By John Pring on 21st June 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP is failing ‘vulnerable’ claimants of universal credit, says watchdog
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is failing to support “vulnerable” claimants and is unable to monitor how they are being treated under its new universal credit benefit system, according to an investigation by the public spending watchdog. The report […]

Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries

By John Pring on 27th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
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The government failed for more than three years to keep a record of what actions it took – if any – after carrying out secret reviews into the suicides of benefit claimants, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The Department for […]

Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information commissioner questions DWP’s ‘highly unusual’ failure on benefit deaths
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The information commissioner has questioned why the government failed to keep track of whether it had implemented recommendations on improving the safety of “vulnerable” disabled people that had been made in its own secret reports into benefit-related deaths. Elizabeth Denham said […]

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