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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
The minister for social security and disability has publicly attacked a book that exposed decades of “bureaucratic violence” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence was published […]