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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release a document that would show how its controversial plans to scrap the work capability assessment would impact disabled people. Despite releasing documents that estimate the impact of less controversial parts […]
The Labour party has raised concerns about government plans to scrap the work capability assessment and give new “fitness for work” powers to work coaches in jobcentres. Disabled activists and disabled people’s organisations have already said they believe the reforms would […]
More than 600,000 disabled people could be missing out on thousands of pounds a year of disability benefits they are entitled to, according to new figures released by the minister for disabled people. They show that 632,000 people are receiving out-of-work […]
Work and pensions ministers have refused to answer scores of questions from MPs on issues that are vital to disabled people, research by Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. In the last six months, ministers have repeatedly argued that they cannot […]
The minister for disabled people has refused to investigate why the number of disabled people whose disability benefits were stopped when they failed to return a vital form rose by more than 450 per cent in four years. The figures, released earlier […]
A minister has been told to carry out an urgent investigation after the number of disabled people whose disability benefits were stopped when they failed to return a vital form rose by more than 450 per cent in four years. The […]
Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has attacked the “totally unacceptable” number of disabled people who return to work after being found not fit for work by the government’s assessment system. In a major policy speech, Jonathan Ashworth (pictured) said that […]
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 […]
A disabled woman who spent 37 years living in mental health institutions and hostels, including time sleeping in doorways, fears the flawed universal credit system will cause her to be evicted from her flat back onto the streets. It is only […]
Ministers from three separate government departments have refused to say if they have any plans to protect disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes if there are power blackouts this winter. Ministers from the Department […]