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Ministers are secretly considering means-testing PIP, DWP admits, despite pledge in green paper

By John Pring on 19th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers are secretly considering means-testing PIP, DWP admits, despite pledge in green paper
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Labour ministers are considering whether to start means-testing personal independence payment, which is likely to cut billions of pounds a year more from benefits spending, new information secured from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed. The highly controversial […]

DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hides truth from coroner on exactly what happened in lead-up to Jodey Whiting’s suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hidden the truth from a coroner about its role in a disabled woman’s suicide, allowing ministers to avoid having to explain how they would prevent more benefit claimants taking their own lives. Helga […]

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for public inquiry into deaths after coroner rules suicide was ‘triggered’ by DWP
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped her benefits has called for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the department’s actions. Joy Dove […]

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner finds DWP’s decisions and safeguarding failings were ‘trigger’ for suicide of Jodey Whiting
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A coroner has found that the decision of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to wrongly stop a disabled woman’s benefits after a string of safeguarding failings was the “trigger” for her to take her own life. Coroner Clare Bailey […]

Parliament security confiscates ‘political’ book on DWP deaths from activists before PIP cuts debate

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Parliament security confiscates ‘political’ book on DWP deaths from activists before PIP cuts debate
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Parliament has refused to criticise a security officer who confiscated a book about benefit deaths because it was “too political” as three disabled activists arrived to watch a debate on disability benefit cuts, and quizzed them about their medication. The three […]

DWP must finally act on ‘deficient’ approach to safeguarding with a duty of care, say MPs

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP must finally act on ‘deficient’ approach to safeguarding with a duty of care, say MPs
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A report from MPs today calls on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to introduce a new legal duty for it to safeguard “vulnerable” claimants of benefits, after decades of deaths and other harm linked to its policies and procedures. […]

Crowdfunder in memory of Krissi Hunt could educate coroners on links between DWP and claimant deaths

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Crowdfunder in memory of Krissi Hunt could educate coroners on links between DWP and claimant deaths
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Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a […]

Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn
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The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form. His sister, […]

DWP is broken and needs to be scrapped and replaced, say Liberal Democrats

By John Pring on 6th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP is broken and needs to be scrapped and replaced, say Liberal Democrats
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The Liberal Democrats have called for the “completely broken” Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to be scrapped and replaced with a new department that is “more supportive and inclusive” for benefit claimants. The call has come from Steve Darling, one […]

Years of evidence exposes minister’s claims in parliament that DWP is not to blame for deaths

By John Pring on 20th February 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Years of evidence exposes minister’s claims in parliament that DWP is not to blame for deaths
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Years of evidence shows clearly how a “violent” culture that developed within the Department for Work and Pensions over three decades was responsible for countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants, despite a minister’s claims last week in parliament. The evidence has […]

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