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The government is facing accusations of a cover-up after refusing to release a report that examined the quality of personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, following a sub-standard test linked to the death or serious harm suffered by a disabled claimant. The […]
Coroners across England and Wales have been asked to do more to question the role of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the deaths of benefit claimants before they carry out inquests. The call came as senior coroners were […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to release all but a few words from scores of emails discussing its role in the deaths of hundreds, and probably thousands, of disabled benefit claimants. The information was released to Disability […]
Emails sent by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communications staff reveal how they have grown increasingly frustrated at attempts to hold their bosses to account for years of deaths linked to their treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The information was […]
The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. Disability News Service (DNS) editor John […]
Cross-party MPs have warned that ministers’ refusal to introduce a key protection into their new fraud and error bill could see a repeat of the countless deaths caused by the austerity measures of past governments. The concern was raised by MPs […]
A Labour-led committee of MPs has called the government’s universal credit cuts act “discriminatory” and warned that it will push disabled people into poverty, despite every one of its Labour members voting for the legislation in July. The Universal Credit Act […]
Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives. Despite efforts to defeat the much-changed bill, or […]
There is a race against time to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital evidence about flaws in the universal credit system before parliament passes a bill that will cut billions of pounds from disabled people’s support. […]
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 […]