public accounts committee

Benefits and Poverty

Esther McVey speaking in the House of Commons

July 19, 2018 0

McVey’s U-turn means DWP will pay at least £100 million more to disabled claimants

Disabled people will be paid more than £100 million extra in backdated benefits owed by the government, after a U-turn by work and pensions secretary Esther McVey on the eve of a court hearing. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had previously only agreed to offer a partial backpayment to an estimated 70,000

Benefits and Poverty

Daphne Hall gives evidence, with another witness next to her

May 24, 2018 0

DWP should think again on ESA backpayments… and offer compensation, MPs hear

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should reconsider its decision to offer only a partial backpayment of the money owed to 70,000 disabled people who for years were not receiving the correct level of out-of-work benefits, MPs have heard. One Conservative member of the public accounts committee, Anne Marie Morris, suggested that DWP

Benefits and Poverty

February 15, 2018 0

DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

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Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) agreed in October to trial handing out warnings instead of benefit sanctions when claimants breach the conditions imposed on them for the first

Benefits and Poverty

Leslie Wolfe giving evidence in parliament

April 7, 2016

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‘Serious failings’ in disability assessments, despite payments of £500 million a year

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There are still “serious failings” with the disability assessments contracted out by the government, even though it is paying outsourcing giants half a billion pounds a year to carry them out, according to a new report by MPs. The Commons public accounts committee says disabled benefit claimants still do not receive an acceptable service

Employment

November 7, 2014 0

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’

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The failure of Work Programme contractors to provide enough employment support to disabled people and other “harder-to-help” benefit claimants is “a scandal”, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Margaret Hodge said the government’s decision to pay companies more if they found jobs for those further away from the

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McVey’s U-turn means DWP will pay at least £100 million more to disabled claimants

DWP should think again on ESA backpayments… and offer compensation, MPs hear

DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

‘Serious failings’ in disability assessments, despite payments of £500 million a year

Work Programme failure to help disabled people ‘is a scandal’