PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be
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#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations
Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had
PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 A disabled woman is seeking a judicial review by
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PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the way
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PIP claimant who took her own life had written about unfair assessment report
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd February 2017 A disabled woman who took her own life after being
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Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The sister of a disabled man who died after being
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PIP investigation: 100 cases, and still DWP refuses to accept the dishonest truth
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied there is
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Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The mother of a disabled man who starved to death
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Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian
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PIP investigation: ‘Lie after lie after lie’
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 Many more disabled people have come forward to describe how the
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PIP investigation: Welfare expert says two-thirds of appeals involve lying assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 Welfare rights experts have produced evidence that backs up the
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PIP investigation: MPs to consider assessment dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 An influential committee of MPs is to examine claims of
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MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers
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Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in
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PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Labour, the Green party and the Liberal Democrats have called for
PIP INVESTIGATION: Regulator receives ‘more than 1,600 complaints about assessors’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 A regulatory body has received more than 1,600 complaints
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PIP INVESTIGATION: Assessment reports show widespread dishonesty by nurses
By John Pring, Disability News Service. 26th January 2017 Healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of benefit claimants
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May’s mental health speech ‘is smokescreen to hide damage of welfare reform’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th January 2017 The prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy, after making
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Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after
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Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’
By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN 1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of
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