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Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide. More than 160 MPs had told the […]
A coroner has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to take urgent safety measures following the suicide of a man who became paranoid after suddenly receiving £5,000 in benefit arrears, five years after a similar call by another coroner. […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped sending key records from a crucial period in the history of disability benefit reform to The National Archives so they can be viewed by researchers. Under the Public Records Act, government departments […]
Labour’s new work and pensions secretary has told MPs that she is open to the idea of her department being subject to a legal “safeguarding duty”, a move that could transform its approach to the safety of disabled benefit claimants. Liz […]
The way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has treated disabled people in the last 15 years “will go down in history as a terrible and inexcusable crime”, MPs were told this week during a debate on the new government’s […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied destroying documents that would have revealed why it weakened guidance on when to investigate the cases of benefit claimants who took their own lives, following a probe by the information commissioner. Repeated […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it carried out more than 30 secret reviews last year into cases of serious harm or deaths involving someone receiving universal credit. Internal process reviews (IPRs) are only carried out […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) breached its own rules by destroying recordings that would have shown how a work coach told a traumatised disabled woman to attend a face-to-face jobcentre meeting, days before she took her own life. DWP’s […]
The equality watchdog was first told by a senior member of staff six years ago that it needed to launch an inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. But despite […]
A minister is refusing to release three documents that link the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) with the deaths of benefit claimants, despite criticising DWP only last month for “absurdly” refusing to comply with similar freedom of information requests. Sir […]