The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
The Department for Work and Pensions has been accused of “a cover-up” after destroying reports into suicides linked to benefits being stopped....
Laura Pidcock Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Labour) 2:30 pm, 24th April 2019 I beg to move, That this House has...
UK Gov petition (ie at 10,000 Govt will respond) In a speech on 5/3/19, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced plans to merge assessments...
Ministers should consider abolishing the Department for Work and Pensions after its failure to help ill and disabled people out of poverty, a...
"Disabled people will be able to work with a dedicated key worker to get and stay in employment, the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd...
" BRIEFING PAPER Number 07820, 13 July 2018 Since 29 September 2017, some Employment Support Allowance claimants with the most severe health...
Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, Last year, the UN accused the Department for Work...
Article by Steve Topple in The Canary The DWP is in court again and it could open the floodgates for countless disabled people. THE VIEWS...
Hello, First post, here goes... I recently placed a number of Freedom of Information requests with the funders of the PACE trial, named on the...
The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses...
Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports completed by a private sector contractor were significantly flawed, confidential...
The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits....
Every person receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have their claim reviewed, the Department for Work and Pensions has said. A...
Mr Justice Mostyn said in his judgement last month that DWP’s intention had been “to save money” and that the decision to introduce the new...
Also mentions ME and GET. The civil servant who leads the government’s work and health unit has sparked fresh concerns that the new disability...
This was from last year at some point, but it was recently mentioned again on Facebook and we didn't seem to have a thread for it here (although...
In 2007 the BBC covered the fact that the DWP were getting advice on disability benefits from a US insurance company - Unum. Both the BBC News...
Ministers have backed down – at least temporarily – from plans to force all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take...
This article published on November 9, 2017 might be of interest to those in the U.K. Here are a few excerpts: "A Senior Judge Has Suggested...
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