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DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

By John Pring on 15th February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

Tory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants

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

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Politics

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Employment

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 […]

Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Human Rights

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, […]

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

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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. […]

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

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

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 31st July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

DWP is ‘taking baby steps’ on sanctions when regime ‘is costing lives’

By John Pring on 5th June 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP is ‘taking baby steps’ on sanctions when regime ‘is costing lives’
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Companies delivering the government’s Work Programme appear to have ignored rules that protect disabled people from serious harm, forcing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish new guidance on its benefit sanctions regime. DWP has accused providers of an […]

ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions
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The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative government would cut the out-of-work benefits of people with mental health conditions if they refused treatment. In a debate broadcast on local […]

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