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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed that all disabled people being assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) will be able to have their face-to-face assessments recorded. The promise has come in a letter to the Right to […]
Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has been unable to explain why she and her party have stayed almost silent about a young disabled mother whose death was linked by a coroner to fatal flaws in the disability benefits system. Last […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been blamed for causing the death of a disabled man whose partner had warned he was too ill to undergo an upcoming benefit assessment that had left him “distraught” and “devastated”. It is […]
A private sector contractor has been announced by the government as a “gold standard” employer of disabled people, just as a coroner was implicating the company in the decision of a young disabled mum to take her own life. The Department […]
The work and pensions secretary has refused to answer questions from an MP about the death of a young disabled mother which was blamed by a coroner on flaws in the disability benefits system. MPs on the work and pensions committee […]
Flaws in the disability benefits system were “the predominant factor and the only acute factor” that led to a young disabled mother taking her own life, a coroner has concluded. Gordon Clow, assistant coroner for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, yesterday (Wednesday) highlighted […]
The release of a secret government report has revealed how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made repeated, serious errors with the benefit claim of a young disabled mother that appear to have contributed to her decision to take her […]
A government contractor made key changes to the way it assesses disability benefit claims after the apparent suicide of a young disabled mum who had repeatedly warned she could not cope with attending a face-to-face assessment. The admission of the changes […]
Evidence from a senior DWP civil servant has helped to expose multiple flaws at the heart of the personal independence payment (PIP) benefit system that appear to have played a key role in the suicide of a young disabled mother. She […]
A young disabled mother killed herself after hearing she would have to attend a face-to-face interview at a benefits assessment centre, following repeated warnings that she could not cope with such a meeting, an inquest has heard. Philippa Day left an […]