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Coroner silent on why DWP was not questioned at inquest, despite ‘nightmare’ messages

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

Coroner silent on why DWP was not questioned at inquest, despite ‘nightmare’ messages
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not questioned about an autistic man’s suicide at an inquest, despite the bundle of evidence presented to the coroner containing multiple distressing messages he had scrawled on letters about his benefits. A police […]

Judge highly critical of DWP’s flawed IT systems that helped cause claimant’s distress

By John Pring on 4th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judge highly critical of DWP’s flawed IT systems that helped cause claimant’s distress
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A judge has been highly critical of flawed IT systems that prevent the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and one of its contractors from sharing vital information about disabled benefit claimants. District Judge Lacey told Bournemouth County Court on Friday […]

DWP staff repeatedly failed to follow suicide threat guidance, secret death reviews reveal

By John Pring on 10th December 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff repeatedly failed to follow suicide threat guidance, secret death reviews reveal
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when claimants threaten to take their own lives, following secret reviews into as many as six suicides linked to the benefit system. The reviews suggest […]

EHRC papers show it sidelined its own board on WCA death inquiry decision

By John Pring on 6th August 2020 Category: Human Rights

EHRC papers show it sidelined its own board on WCA death inquiry decision
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The equality and human rights watchdog failed to consult its board, or its disabled advisers, before deciding to delay an inquiry into the government’s work capability assessment and its links with the deaths of benefit claimants, new documents have revealed. The […]

Errol Graham: Family begin legal action against DWP over man who starved to death

By John Pring on 27th February 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: Family begin legal action against DWP over man who starved to death
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The family of a disabled man who starved to death after his out-of-work disability benefits were wrongly removed have begun a legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They hope the legal action will force DWP to make […]

Errol Graham: Vigil will push for change and justice, after tragic death

By John Pring on 6th February 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Errol Graham: Vigil will push for change and justice, after tragic death
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Campaigners will tomorrow (Friday) take part in a vigil in Nottingham to highlight how the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) led to a disabled man starving to death after his out-of-work benefits were withdrawn. Disabled activists and […]

DWP: The case for the prosecution

By John Pring on 2nd December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP: The case for the prosecution
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The first death was on New Year’s Eve 2011, a divorced woman in her early 50s who was found dead at her home in Scotland after taking her own life. She would later become known as Ms DE. She has never […]

Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments

By John Pring on 24th January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments
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Disabled activists are hoping to use a parliamentary meeting next month to persuade more MPs that action must be taken to prevent further deaths caused by the government’s much-criticised fitness for work test. The First Do No Harm lobby on 13 […]

Ideas to replace WCA with new assessment framework win some support

By John Pring on 13th December 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Ideas to replace WCA with new assessment framework win some support
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Disabled activists have delivered a generally positive response to fresh ideas on how to replace the hated fitness for work test with a new assessment framework that would restore “dignity and respect” to those unable to work full-time. The ideas were […]

DWP softens ‘threatening’ tone of universal credit agreement after claimant’s death

By John Pring on 30th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP softens ‘threatening’ tone of universal credit agreement after claimant’s death
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to soften the “threatening” tone of the agreement that claimants of universal credit are forced to sign to receive their benefits, following a secret review into the death of a claimant. […]

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