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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are failing in two out of five cases to meet new standards designed to “significantly reduce” the number of deaths of benefit claimants. A survey by the department found its staff did not meet […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has started telling 500 disabled people on out-of-work benefits that they must move onto universal credit, just days after a Conservative minister assured MPs no claimants would face such a move until September. DWP […]
The Labour party has refused to answer key questions about the safety of its disability employment policies, and why it published an inaccessible social media post about those plans. Disability News Service (DNS) has been trying to clarify details of its […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Cabinet Office have both been unable to find a report that was supposed to describe how DWP supported “vulnerable” people who rely on the universal credit benefit system. DWP was told to […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to say if the prime minister was wrong to suggest that disability benefits were being misused and exploited, after new official figures showed the level of fraud has fallen to zero. The […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted missing multiple opportunities to record the “vulnerability” of a disabled woman whose death was later linked by a coroner to failings at the heart of its universal credit benefits system. DWP has […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to explain why its new policy paper on benefit fraud has ignored concerns raised by a coroner about a disabled woman who died following a “targeted” review of her universal credit claim. […]
The prime minister has been accused of whipping up hostility towards disabled people, and demonising and scapegoating claimants of disability benefits, with a new series of “chilling” reforms that will weaken the social security safety net. Rishi Sunak announced plans for […]
The “dangerous” rollout of universal credit to half a million more claimants is a potential threat to the “safety and well-being” of disabled people who currently rely on so-called “legacy” benefits to survive, disability campaigners have warned. Tens of thousands of […]
Some of the hundreds of disabled people left homeless on London’s streets have described how they came to be living in tents just yards from where the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used to have many of its offices. An […]