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It’s just too much effort to produce universal credit WCA stats, says minister

By John Pring on 21st July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

It’s just too much effort to produce universal credit WCA stats, says minister
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The minister for disabled people has told MPs it is too expensive and too much effort to produce statistics about key parts of an assessment system linked to hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths over the last decade. Chloe Smith told […]

MPs ask Coffey why she is hiding nine secret DWP reports

By John Pring on 16th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs ask Coffey why she is hiding nine secret DWP reports
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MPs have asked the work and pensions secretary to justify her refusal to release nine potentially embarrassing reports about her department’s work, at least four of which focus on disabled claimants of benefits. Stephen Timms, chair of the Commons work and […]

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’

By John Pring on 9th June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘ignored five weeks of pleas for help from suicidal claimant’
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A severely distressed disabled man who repeatedly warned Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff that his life was at risk says they refused to take action to protect him, breaching their own guidance on suicidal benefit claimants. Finn Jaradd says […]

Universal credit boss defends years of misleading information

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Universal credit boss defends years of misleading information
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The senior civil servant in charge of universal credit has repeatedly refused to explain why ministers have spent years using misleading information to try to persuade disabled people to transfer onto the government’s new working-age benefit system. Neil Couling spent three […]

Regulator pressure forces DWP to admit: One million ESA claimants will lose out under UC

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

Regulator pressure forces DWP to admit: One million ESA claimants will lose out under UC
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has bowed to pressure from a regulator and finally published figures proving that at least one million disabled people will eventually be left worse off through the move to universal credit. Disability News Service […]

Regulator tells DWP to explain silence on universal credit WCA stats

By John Pring on 14th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Regulator tells DWP to explain silence on universal credit WCA stats
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The UK statistics regulator has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to explain why it has yet to provide any statistics that show how disabled people seeking to claim universal credit are experiencing the work capability assessment (WCA) process. […]

DWP caught planning to claw back vital support through universal credit ‘migration’

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP caught planning to claw back vital support through universal credit ‘migration’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been caught trying to claw back vital support from disabled people set to be “migrated” across to the new universal credit from their existing benefits. The clawback means that disabled people whose support […]

Information commissioner rules DNS was not ‘vexatious’ in DWP universal credit request

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information commissioner rules DNS was not ‘vexatious’ in DWP universal credit request
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The information commissioner has ruled against efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to brand Disability News Service “vexatious” for trying to find out how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. […]

Work coaches confirm harsher new DWP jobcentre tactics

By John Pring on 17th March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Work coaches confirm harsher new DWP jobcentre tactics
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New disturbing evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has introduced harsher rules designed to force more disabled people with significant mental distress to attend frequent face-to-face jobcentre meetings. Last week, a work coach told Disability News […]

Regulator examines DWP’s ‘shameful’ failure on universal credit WCA stats

By John Pring on 17th March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Regulator examines DWP’s ‘shameful’ failure on universal credit WCA stats
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The UK statistics regulator is examining the “shameful” failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide figures that would show how disabled people seeking to claim universal credit are experiencing the work capability assessment (WCA) process. Despite ministers launching […]

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