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Equality watchdog was told six years ago to launch inquiry into benefit deaths, but ignored advice. 10th October 2024. The equality watchdog was first told by a senior member of staff six years ago that it needed to launch an inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal.
Ministers could merge disability benefits and want to cut future ...
Oct 10, 2024 · Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green paper ha…
Mounting evidence of assessment crisis, as DWP halts WCA …
Oct 10, 2024 · Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. Delays and backlogs across the assessment system have even led to DWP refusing to carry out any repeat work capability assessments (WCAs) for claimants already receiving universal credit ...
Anger and confusion over Kendall’s comments on sending work …
7 hours ago · Disabled activists have reacted angrily to “horrific” government plans that could see work coaches being sent into mental health hospitals to help push people in severe mental distress off benefits and into work. Liz Kendall made the comments in an interview with BBC News ahead of the government ...
‘Major concern’ as disability hate crime prosecutions fall again ...
7 hours ago · The number of disability hate crimes recorded by police has fallen by nearly 20 per cent in a year, Home Office figures have revealed, but the number of prosecutions has also continued to drop. The figures show the number of disability hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales dropped by ...
Fresh DWP fears after Kendall helps launch report that calls for …
Oct 10, 2024 · Comments by new work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and her support for a controversial report, suggest she wants to increase pressure on disabled people to move off benefits and into work, while disregarding risks to their health.
Disabled people ‘back in the firing line’ on cuts after ‘hostile ...
Oct 10, 2024 · Disabled people are back “in the firing line” on spending cuts, activists have warned, following a trio of decisions announced by Labour’s new chancellor, Rachel Reeves, this week.
DWP’s ‘truly shocking’ disability poverty stats are ‘terrible ...
Oct 10, 2024 · But she said the figures that now show the scale of that disadvantage were “still shocking”, with the Social Metrics Commission’s report showing that more than 57 per cent of poverty was disability-related in 2021-22. Clifford said: “This is a terrible indictment of a country as rich as Britain, where, over the same two years that the ...
Half a million set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘fit for work’ test ...
Oct 10, 2024 · More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. The Department for Wo…
New charter calls for ‘bold’ action from government on disability ...
Oct 3, 2024 · Disabled people’s organisations and allies have joined together to issue a series of demands to the government that they believe would help to end employment discrimination against disabled people.