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Conservative conference: Coffey signals new bid to push support group towards work

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Employment

Conservative conference: Coffey signals new bid to push support group towards work
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has strongly signalled that her department will launch a new bid to try to push more disabled people with high support needs into work. Coffey, speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference […]

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to seek permission to appeal against a court’s ruling that there should not be a second inquest into her daughter’s death. Joy Dove […]

Labour conference: Reynolds pledges to work with disabled people to replace WCA

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour conference: Reynolds pledges to work with disabled people to replace WCA
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Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to work alongside disabled people to draw up plans to replace the “fitness for work” benefit assessment system that has been linked to the deaths of multiple claimants over the last decade. Jonathan […]

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence
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Three judges have rejected a mother’s bid to secure a second inquest into the death of her disabled daughter – who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped – despite one of the judges criticising the “shocking” failures in the […]

Prospect of Atos ‘fitness for work’ contract return horrifies activists

By John Pring on 16th September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Prospect of Atos ‘fitness for work’ contract return horrifies activists
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Disabled activists reacted with horror this week after learning that the discredited government contractor Atos could soon be carrying out “fitness for work” tests again, six years after withdrawing from its assessment contract. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is […]

DWP figures reveal sharp rise in secret benefit death reviews

By John Pring on 12th August 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures reveal sharp rise in secret benefit death reviews
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New figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have revealed that the number of secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants has increased sharply in the last couple of years. The figures, secured by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

DWP’s JobcentrePlus failure on access is ‘unacceptable’, say MPs

By John Pring on 5th August 2021 Category: Employment

DWP’s JobcentrePlus failure on access is ‘unacceptable’, say MPs
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The failure of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to ensure that the employment services it provides to disabled people through JobcentrePlus are accessible is “simply unacceptable”, according to a cross-party committee of MPs. In a new report on the […]

Jodey Whiting: DWP tells high court her death was isolated case and not sign of systemic failure… despite years of evidence

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: DWP tells high court her death was isolated case and not sign of systemic failure… despite years of evidence
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told a court that the death of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were removed was not part of a widespread “systemic” problem, despite years of evidence to […]

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Judge asks why DWP failed to ‘pick up a phone’ before claimant’s suicide
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A high court judge has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it did not take the “common sense” step of phoning a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress – who later took her own life […]

Jodey Whiting: Fresh evidence shows need for second inquest into death ‘caused by DWP’

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Fresh evidence shows need for second inquest into death ‘caused by DWP’
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Fresh evidence shows that the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were a “central cause” of the death of a disabled women who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly removed, the high court heard this […]

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