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Sophia Yuferev

Cover-up allows DWP and other public bodies to avoid detailed probe into disabled woman’s death

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Cover-up allows DWP and other public bodies to avoid detailed probe into disabled woman’s death
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A local council, police and NHS have helped cover up the failures that led to a disabled woman’s body being found in her flat months after her benefits had been removed, Disability News Service (DNS) has discovered. Havering council told DNS […]

Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. […]

DWP hounded disabled woman for years before her ‘starvation’ death, papers show

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hounded disabled woman for years before her ‘starvation’ death, papers show
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A disabled woman whose body was found in her flat months after all her benefits had been removed had been hounded for years by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and repeatedly failed by other public bodies, documents have shown. […]

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister
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Three disabled women who lost relatives because of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings have expressed their shock and anger at the appointment of Therese Coffey as the new deputy prime minister. Coffey, who was also appointed health and social care […]

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