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

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 ...
ESA

We will keep fighting, disabled activists warn DWP as they protest against benefit cuts outside Tate Modern

Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a ...
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 ...
ESA

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 ...
ESA

DWP assessment firms ‘still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports’

Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for disability benefits are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years ...
ESA

Only one in three disabled PhD students receive the support they need, report finds

Only a third of disabled postgraduate doctoral students receive the support they need to study on an equal footing with their non-disabled colleagues, new research has revealed. The report also found ...
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New Access to Work applicants being told they could have to wait 37 weeks for decision, MPs hear

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now telling disabled people who need support through the Access to Work scheme that it could take 37 weeks to make a decision on their application, senior ...
ESA

Waves of anger and alarm over ‘punitive’ and ‘discriminatory’ Motability changes

Hundreds of disabled people have expressed anger and alarm over multiple aspects of the “punitive, discriminatory” changes that are being introduced to the Motability scheme. They responded on social ...