DWP surveillance of benefit claimants will lead to abuse, it’s claimed – and This Site has serious concerns about Keir Starmer’s plan for the Department for Work and Pensions to spy on benefit claimants’ bank accounts. Starmer seems to think it is not enough for the DWP t...
Under the plans, disabled people who cannot work will only be able to qualify for a new health element of universal credit if they also receive the disability benefits personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA), or, in Scotland, adult disability payment. ...
Man facing life in wheelchair still waiting for tribunal 15 months after DWP refuse benefits DWP: The cruel Universal Credit scam which is leaving victims penniless; Victims are being left penniless because fraudsters are not providing a loan, but instead stealing from their future benefit payments ...
DNS reports this week how a disabled man had his benefits slashed after an Atos nurse lied about what he told her during an assessment about his pain and suicidal thoughts, and repeatedly under-stated how his health conditions affected his day-to-day life, in the latest example...
and Pensions Select Committee has exposed that supposedly medically trained DWP disability assessors, employed by private government contractors ATOS and Capita, have asked people with Down’s Syndrome, a congenital condition, when they “caught it” during assessments for the main disability benefi...
Benefit.The Bootle protest was made up of representatives of disabled rights and welfare cuts campaigns Disabled People Against Cuts, Black Triangle and ReClaim.Mick Bennett, 49, a volunteer for Reclaim, said: "According to the DWP, 156,000 claimants of benefits were deemed fit for work last ...
Amidst the many leaks and rumours about abolishing or time limiting Incapacity Benefit (IB) claims, extra rights and responsibilities for other active and inactive benefits recipients and tighter medical checks, the final document felt a little bit flat....
benefits, which has ended up tilting the welfare state towards pensioners. But there was more to it than that. The designers of Universal Credit liked straight lines. They wanted a long straight tapering of benefits at a rate of 55%. That costs money, as benefit spreads ...
In relation to the personal capability assessment of incapacity for work, Tribunal Chairs told the President that a major problem was an even greater likelihood than with other benefits for both examining doctors and decision makers to refuse to believe evidence given by the claimant. So, the ...
“It’s a multi-faceted problem, there’s no easy solution, but when you measure something I do think you tend to focus on it more,” she said. Reward, compensation and benefits opportunities