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Disability benefits provide positive boost to the economy, research finds

By John Pring on 30th January 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability benefits provide positive boost to the economy, research finds
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Being in receipt of disability benefits has a significant positive impact on a disabled person’s wellbeing and level of “life satisfaction”, according to new research. Researchers said their conclusions showed that making disability benefits even harder to claim would be counter-productive, […]

Ministers decided to sit on critical PIP report, just days before publishing ‘brutal’ green paper

By John Pring on 16th January 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers decided to sit on critical PIP report, just days before publishing ‘brutal’ green paper
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Conservative ministers decided to hide a report that exposed the flaws of the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system, just five days before they published proposals to replace PIP cash payments with vouchers or one-off grants, ministerial emails have revealed. Disability […]

Kendall strongly hints there will be no PIP vouchers, but twice fails to make that promise

By John Pring on 14th November 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Kendall strongly hints there will be no PIP vouchers, but twice fails to make that promise
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has strongly hinted that she will not implement the last government’s proposal to replace disability benefits with vouchers, but she twice failed to make a promise to that effect to MPs. A public consultation that […]

DWP finally admits ordering more than 30 secret reviews into universal credit harm and deaths last year

By John Pring on 7th November 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP finally admits ordering more than 30 secret reviews into universal credit harm and deaths last year
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it carried out more than 30 secret reviews last year into cases of serious harm or deaths involving someone receiving universal credit. Internal process reviews (IPRs) are only carried out […]

Anger and confusion over Kendall’s comments on sending work coaches into mental health hospitals

By John Pring on 17th October 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger and confusion over Kendall’s comments on sending work coaches into mental health hospitals
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Disabled activists have reacted angrily to “horrific” government plans that could see work coaches being sent into mental health hospitals to help push people in severe mental distress off benefits and into work. Liz Kendall made the comments in an interview […]

Tories silent on why their ministers ‘sat on’ DWP research for six years

By John Pring on 10th October 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tories silent on why their ministers ‘sat on’ DWP research for six years
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The Conservative party has refused to explain why its former ministers “sat on” vital research papers for up to six years while running the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Labour’s new work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, this week published […]

Research ‘sat on’ by DWP exposed how ‘degrading’ PIP system left disabled people ‘numb’ and ‘broken’

By John Pring on 10th October 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Research ‘sat on’ by DWP exposed how ‘degrading’ PIP system left disabled people ‘numb’ and ‘broken’
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Research suppressed by the last government exposed how the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system and its dishonest and unfair assessments left disabled people “broken”, “numb” and “fuming”. The research, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), examined the […]

Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country

By John Pring on 12th September 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country
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A disabled people’s organisation is hoping its new disability justice project will draw support from across the country and create change in both government policy and public attitudes, as well as addressing the sense of “inevitability” around disability poverty. One of […]

Statements by Sunak and Stride on disability benefits were potentially misleading, says stats regulator

By John Pring on 13th June 2024 Category: Politics

Statements by Sunak and Stride on disability benefits were potentially misleading, says stats regulator
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Three statements made by government ministers on disability benefits – including one by Rishi Sunak – have been found to be potentially misleading by the UK statistics regulator. Of the three misleading statements, one of them was made by the prime […]

Progress continues on key parts of Conservative disability benefit reforms, despite election

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Politics

Progress continues on key parts of Conservative disability benefit reforms, despite election
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Progress on key parts of the government’s disability benefit reform agenda is unlikely to be significantly disrupted by July’s surprise general election, Disability News Service (DNS) has established.  Rishi Sunak’s decision to hold a general election on 4 July means parliament […]

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