Labour’s inactivity adviser swears at DNS editor after being challenged on safety of young claimants
The government’s youth inactivity adviser swore at Disability News Service’s editor after being challenged about his failure ...
The minister leading a government review of personal independence payment (PIP) has refused four times to rule out cuts to spending, but he has promised no disabled person will be forced to accept ...
The disability minister has performed a rapid U-turn and agreed to do more to involve disabled people in producing his ...
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and ...
New DWP overpayments concerns ‘show something with universal credit has gone catastrophically wrong’
A new Department for Work and Pensions overpayments scandal could be brewing, after a series of reports that disabled people receiving certain benefits are being overpaid universal credit. Disabled ...
The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told MPs that he hopes DWP’s use of artificial intelligence in detecting fraud among benefit claimants will not lead to ...
Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest ...
A press watchdog has received hundreds of complaints about a “toxic” article by the Daily Telegraph which asked its readers to calculate how much disabled people on out-of-work benefits were ...
The government’s Access to Work scheme is plagued by multiple failings, including lengthy delays – which risk disabled people losing their jobs – poor communication, and an inaccessible process, a ...
Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show
The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty* by 2030, official documents have ...
The government is facing accusations of a cover-up after refusing to release a report that examined the quality of personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, following a sub-standard test linked ...
Disabled MPs and activists have expressed grave concern at the decision of Labour backbencher Lauren Edwards to reintroduce the “divisive” and “deeply flawed and unsafe” assisted dying bill to ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results