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Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments

By John Pring on 19th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments
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Two disabled campaigners whose brothers’ deaths were closely linked to the actions of the outsourcing company Atos have welcomed the announcement that its 20 years of carrying out disability assessments for the government will end next year. From September next year, […]

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

By John Pring on 26th April 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’
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The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing to show vital documents that linked its “fitness for work” assessment with the deaths of benefit claimants to an independent expert it hired to review the test. Dr Paul Litchfield […]

DWP media reports ignore benefit deaths… and IDS resignation

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Politics

DWP media reports ignore benefit deaths… and IDS resignation
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants ignored media coverage that exposed how ministers’ policies had led to the deaths of benefit claimants, in a series of confidential reports for their bosses. The DWP Media Evaluation reports, obtained by Disability […]

Duncan Smith tells DNS: ‘I’m not going to be accused by you’ over mental health deaths

By John Pring on 6th October 2016 Category: Crime

Duncan Smith tells DNS: ‘I’m not going to be accused by you’ over mental health deaths
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Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of people with mental health conditions who took their own lives after being unfairly found fit for work by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Duncan Smith was speaking to Disability […]

Scottish police assessing possible investigation into IDS and Grayling

By John Pring on 5th May 2016 Category: Crime

Scottish police assessing possible investigation into IDS and Grayling
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Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test a failure which may have caused “countless deaths”. Disabled activist […]

Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths

By John Pring on 24th March 2016 Category: Crime

Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal probe’ over WCA deaths
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Disabled activists are calling for Iain Duncan Smith to face a criminal investigation over his refusal to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, which led to “countless deaths” over the last six years. They […]

Activists say why Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal justice system’

By John Pring on 24th March 2016 Category: Crime

Activists say why Duncan Smith and Grayling ‘must face criminal justice system’
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Disabled activists and disabled people’s organisations have explained why they are backing a call for two former work and pensions ministers to face a criminal investigation for misconduct in public office. Many of the country’s leading disabled campaigners have spoken out […]

Yvette Cooper slams ‘appalling’ failure of ministers to act over coroner’s letter

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

Yvette Cooper slams ‘appalling’ failure of ministers to act over coroner’s letter
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Labour’s former work and pensions secretary has attacked Tory ministers for failing to order an urgent review of the “fitness for work” test after a coroner warned that it had triggered a disabled man’s suicide. Yvette Cooper has told Disability News […]

DWP dismissed coroner’s concerns over WCA suicide link, document reveals

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

DWP dismissed coroner’s concerns over WCA suicide link, document reveals
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Civil servants and ministers dismissed a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the government’s “fitness for work” test, according to a draft response that apparently lay in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) files for six years. Coroner Tom Osborne wrote […]

DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DNS to ask tribunal to force DWP to publish secret benefit deaths information
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Disability News Service (DNS) will this week ask a tribunal to require the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish information about secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. DNS has been trying since August […]

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