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DWP fights watchdog ruling that it must release secret benefit deaths reviews

By John Pring on 12th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP fights watchdog ruling that it must release secret benefit deaths reviews
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release up to 30 redacted reports into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite being told to do so by the information commissioner. Following the commissioner’s decision, ministers have appealed to the […]

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP unlawfully prevented release of secret benefit deaths reviews, regulator rules
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented the release of secret reports into the deaths of at least 20 benefit claimants, the information commissioner has ruled. The commissioner, John Edwards, has found that DWP breached the Freedom of Information […]

Government’s reviewer tells MPs how DWP kept vital deaths evidence from him

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

Government’s reviewer tells MPs how DWP kept vital deaths evidence from him
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The expert commissioned by the government to review the work capability assessment (WCA) has told MPs that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to hand him crucial evidence showing links between the test and the deaths of disabled claimants. […]

DWP admits carrying out more than 175 secret reviews into benefit deaths in nine years

By John Pring on 10th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits carrying out more than 175 secret reviews into benefit deaths in nine years
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out secret reviews into more than 175 deaths of benefit claimants since February 2012, including 80 in the last three full calendar years, new figures have revealed. The figures also suggest that […]

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. […]

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