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Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 1 Dec 2016: Spending watchdog calls for ‘wide-ranging’ review of benefit sanctions regime The government has been heavily-criticised by the public spending watchdog for failing to investigate how its own sanctions regime … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits sanctions, Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, DWP, John Pring, NAO, National audit office
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Green Paper & consultation on transforming employment prospects for disabled & ill people
Disability Rights UK blog post, 2 November 2016: Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper This green paper sets out the government’s proposals on ways to halve the disability employment gap disabled people and people with long-term health … Continue reading
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Tagged consultation, Department of Work and Pensions, disability, Disability Rights UK, disabled jobseekers, DWP, employment, Green paper
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ESA re-tests axed for chronically ill claimants
BBC news article, 1 Oct 2016: Employment and Support Allowance: Re-tests axed for chronically ill claimants Tens of thousands of people claiming the main benefit for long-term sickness will no longer face repeated medical assessments to keep their payments. Work … Continue reading
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Tagged Damian Green MP, Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, ESA, Welfare reform
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DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments
Disability Rights UK blog post, 8 Aug 2106: DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field MP, has welcomed the DWP’s change of heart on a target for benefit underpayments. … Continue reading
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Revised Welfare Capabilities Assessment Handbook
A new edition of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) handbook has been published on 6 July 2016 by the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This guidance is for healthcare professionals approved or appointed by the Department for Work and … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, WCA, Work Capability Assessment
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Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’
Disability news service news article, by John Pring, 9 June 2016: ‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’ The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than a decade is riddled with … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits, biopsychosocial, Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, Dr Gordon Waddell, DWP, John Pring, Ola Abu Alghaib, Prof Mansel Aylward, Prof Nicholas Watson, Prof Tom Shakespeare
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The government is skewing benefits appeals against disabled people
Guardian article by Frances Ryan, 18 May 2016: The government is skewing benefits appeals against disabled people A new army of ‘presenting officers’ is to help the Department of Work and Pensions at benefit tribunals, while the disabled person making … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits appeals, Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, Frances Ryan, Guardian, presenting officers
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DWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline
Disability news service article, by John Pring, 28 April 2016: DWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking they have … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Work and Pensions, Disability Living Allowance, DLA, DWP, Personal Independence Payment, PIP
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