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A Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her requests for help, after a constituent threatened with sanctions over her universal credit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP […]
MPs have failed to question a minister on the continuing failure to introduce a legal duty for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “safeguard” people who receive state benefits. The evidence session was reviewing progress by the department since […]
One of the Labour government’s key disability employment programmes could prove to be a “positive” step forward, but its implementation has been “more challenging than expected”, a committee of MPs has concluded. Connect to Work was launched in October 2024, and […]
The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MPs. Some politicians and journalists – although not Disability News […]
Disabled people are being hurt, harmed and killed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at a scale that overshadows every other scandal in British society in recent decades, MPs have been told. Disabled activist Rick Burgess warned MPs on […]
The former Labour minister commissioned to investigate why so many younger people are not in jobs, training or education has told MPs that he believes work can be a cure for the “tsunami of distress” affecting young people. Former Labour health […]
Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has failed to apologise after he misled MPs about his department’s system for pushing sick and disabled people into work. McFadden yesterday (Wednesday) exaggerated the flaws in the current system, as he attempted to persuade […]
The government needs to change its “extremely damaging” narrative that suggests disabled people are an “economic burden”, and move away from threats and sanctions, if it wants to increase disability employment, MPs have been told. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) told members […]
Parents who pay to support a child through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its Child Maintenance Service (CMS) face death rates up to three times higher than others the same age, according to “shocking” and “deeply troubling” new figures. […]
A Labour-led committee of MPs has called the government’s universal credit cuts act “discriminatory” and warned that it will push disabled people into poverty, despite every one of its Labour members voting for the legislation in July. The Universal Credit Act […]