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Therese Coffey

Coffey scrapped plan for independent review of sanctions, DWP admits

By John Pring on 26th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey scrapped plan for independent review of sanctions, DWP admits
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The government abandoned proposals for an independent review of its much-criticised sanctions policy, the latest example of how a minister watered down plans to prevent suicides and learn lessons from the deaths of benefit claimants. The decision to further limit the […]

Shock and anger over DWP’s ‘despicable’ decision to abandon work on deaths plan

By John Pring on 15th December 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Shock and anger over DWP’s ‘despicable’ decision to abandon work on deaths plan
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Disabled campaigners have expressed shock and anger after learning how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to help it prevent further deaths of benefit claimants. The plan was draw […]

DWP secretly abandons work on £100m plan to prevent suicides and learn from errors

By John Pring on 8th December 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP secretly abandons work on £100m plan to prevent suicides and learn from errors
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to prevent suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, learn from its mistakes, and deliver reform “for the most vulnerable in society”. […]

DWP finally releases universal credit ‘fitness for work’ figures

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP finally releases universal credit ‘fitness for work’ figures
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published figures that show how many universal credit claimants are being found “fit for work” through the work capability assessment process. They show that DWP is consistently finding more disabled people claiming […]

Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. […]

New DWP boss faces claim she misled parliament over ‘fitness for work’ stats

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New DWP boss faces claim she misled parliament over ‘fitness for work’ stats
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Newly-promoted Chloe Smith faces a claim that she misled parliament about the failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish “essential” figures about its “fitness for work” assessments. The claim has emerged just days after Smith was appointed […]

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister

By John Pring on 8th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Outrage of trio of bereaved relatives as Coffey is elevated to deputy prime minister
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Three disabled women who lost relatives because of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings have expressed their shock and anger at the appointment of Therese Coffey as the new deputy prime minister. Coffey, who was also appointed health and social care […]

DWP dismisses regulator’s call to publish universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats

By John Pring on 11th August 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP dismisses regulator’s call to publish universal credit ‘fitness for work’ stats
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed a call from the UK statistics regulator to provide figures that would show how many universal credit claimants are being found “fit for work” through the work capability assessment (WCA) process. Despite […]

Coffey’s minimal release of secret deaths info suggests key DWP failings

By John Pring on 28th July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coffey’s minimal release of secret deaths info suggests key DWP failings
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Information released by work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey suggests that failings within the universal credit, personal independence payment and employment and support allowance systems have all contributed to the deaths of benefit claimants in the last three years. In a […]

DWP yet to sign claimant deaths legal agreement with watchdog

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP yet to sign claimant deaths legal agreement with watchdog
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has yet to agree to sign a legal agreement with the equality watchdog, after “serious concerns” were raised about its treatment of disabled people claiming benefits. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced […]

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