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Benefits and Poverty

May 17, 2018 0

ESA sanctions are counter-productive and dangerous, MPs are told

Imposing benefit sanctions on disabled people is counter-productive, ineffective and “probably too dangerous”, a trio of experts have told MPs. The Commons work and pensions committee also heard that the failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to research the impact of its sanctions regime was “a real dereliction”. And the MPs

Benefits and Poverty

May 17, 2018 0

DWP sanctions claimants ‘by any means necessary’, MPs are told

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A disabled campaigner has told MPs how she was thrown out of a shelter and forced to sleep in her college library after she was unfairly sanctioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Jen Fidai described yesterday (Wednesday)* how she spent nearly a year with no benefits after being wrongly sanctioned while

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

October 5, 2017 0

Tory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants

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Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has admitted that the system of benefit sanctions often fails to work and can instead cause harm to claimants, particularly those with mental health conditions. The long-awaited admission was yesterday described by one leading disabled campaigner as a “significant step forward” in the battle to scrap sanctions. Gauke,

Politics

May 18, 2017

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Election 2017: Lib Dems would scrap all sanctions, benefit cap and PIP 20-metre rule

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A Liberal Democrat government would scrap all benefit sanctions, end the benefit cap and reverse the controversial personal independence payment (PIP) “20-metre rule” that has led to tens of thousands of disabled people losing their Motability vehicles. Although the three policies are not included in the party’s manifesto, which was published yesterday (Wednesday), the

Employment

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March 2, 2017

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Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO

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The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability benefits assessments with an in-house system – based on the social model – that understands the barriers faced by Deaf and disabled people, according to a disabled people’s organisation. Inclusion London said the government’s Improving Lives green paper on work, health and disability had

Human Rights

February 16, 2017

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Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

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The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his benefits sanctioned has launched a high court legal challenge over a coroner’s refusal to hold an inquest into his death. David Clapson (pictured), who had diabetes, died in July 2013 as a result of an acute lack of insulin,

Benefits and Poverty

November 17, 2016

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Sanction death man’s sister turns to courts after coroner turns down inquest call

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The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his benefits sanctioned is to seek the help of the high court after a coroner refused for the second time to hold an inquest into his death. David Clapson (pictured), who had diabetes, died in 2013 as a result of

Benefits and Poverty

September 22, 2016

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Lib Dem conference: Bid to scrap WCA approved, despite calls for more radical reform

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Liberal Democrats have voted for a new social security policy that will scrap the “fitness for work” test and all benefit sanctions, despite many disabled party members calling for a more radical approach to welfare reform. The vote at the party’s annual conference in Brighton (pictured) means that scrapping the work capability assessment (WCA),

Benefits and Poverty

July 31, 2015

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Concern over review that will examine ‘bullying’ forced treatment plans

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Government proposals that some groups of disabled people should have their benefits cut if they refuse treatment have been branded “ethically unacceptable” and “sheer bullying”. The Conservative pledge to carry out a review into the proposals was treated with shock and anger when it was announced before the election, with disabled activists branding the

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