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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) looks set to carry out a fourth major search through its records to find disabled people who have been unfairly deprived of benefits, following the latest in a series of damaging legal defeats. Today (Thursday), the high court ruled...
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and that he was taking anti-depressants. But the department removed his ESA when he failed to attend a WCA on 30 June 2015 – the second or third assessment he had missed. His benefits were stopped and the withdrawal of his payments was backdated by four weeks. DWP also...
But DWP has refused to publish details of the members, meetings and scope of the panel, which became public when the departmentsaid it would investigatethe death of Errol Graham, who died eight months after his benefits were stopped. DWP was criticised for describing the panel as “independent...
“As well as this case, DPAC also gets around three-to-four emails per day from those in the support group who are being continually harassed to breaking point by the latest DWP dictates. “Those in the ESA support group are being told that they will lose benefits if they don’t attend...