Disability News Service

Secret reviews into claimant deaths nearly doubled last year, DWP annual report reveals (…on page 94)

The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of ...
Disability News Service

PIP review: DWP removes PIP deaths and harm figures from annual report, just as Timms publishes findings

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal ...
Disability News Service

PIP review: Disabled people’s organisations raise concerns over ‘less than honest’ and ‘diluted’ report

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms ...
Disability News Service

PIP review: Disability minister leading review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending

The minister leading the review into personal independence payment (PIP) has told fellow MPs that there “may well be ...
ESA

DWP failed for years to meet legal duties on accessible information, says judge

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed for years to comply with its legal duties under the Equality Act by refusing to provide an accessible way for many disabled people to communicate with ...
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Timms Review could lead to PIP spending cuts, work and pensions secretary admits

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.
ESA

Tory trio mislead party conference on disability benefits as they stir up hostility towards disabled claimants

A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up ...
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DWP’s failure to return calls became ‘consistent feature’ of ‘tragic’ cases, secret report reveals

The failure of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the ...
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Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment

Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among hundreds of ...
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Alarm among veteran activists as Burnham appoints ‘scrounger rhetoric’ Purnell as No 10 chief of staff

Disabled activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to appoint former work and pensions secretary James Purnell as his new chief of staff. Purnell, who ...
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Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over his claim that it deliberately discriminated against him in rejecting his claim for ...
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DWP staff making thousands of potentially fatal errors, three years on from new ‘quality’ checks

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors, particularly on disabled people’s universal credit claims, three years after new “quality assurance” ...