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DWP’s ‘fitness for work’ reviewer handed CBE after refusing to speak out on benefit deaths evidence

By John Pring on 28th June 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s ‘fitness for work’ reviewer handed CBE after refusing to speak out on benefit deaths evidence
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An occupational health expert has been recognised with a high-ranking honour just weeks after refusing to say if he was shown vital documents linking the government’s “fitness for work” test with the deaths of benefit claimants. Dr Paul Litchfield was asked […]

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 5th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Three opposition parties have called for an independent inquiry into claims that ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their “fitness for work” test. The apparent cover-up was […]

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer

By John Pring on 22nd December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer
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Government ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their much-criticised “fitness for work” assessment, new evidence suggests. A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a Disability […]

Stephen Carre WCA scandal: Tory ministers ‘knew their policy was lethal’

By John Pring on 13th November 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Stephen Carre WCA scandal: Tory ministers ‘knew their policy was lethal’
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Disabled activists have called for ministers to face a criminal investigation, over their apparent failure to hand a crucial coroner’s report about the discredited “fitness for work” test to their own independent expert. Earlier this week, a Disability News Service (DNS) […]

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