Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive
Continue readingBenefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why
Continue readingMPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject
Continue readingMore than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal
By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key
Continue readingMinister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be
Continue readingCourt orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its
Continue readingExpert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee
Continue readingFury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures
Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs
Continue readingAssessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf
Continue readingBenefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told
Continue readingPIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on
Continue readingLabour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
Continue readingConcern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for
Continue readingMaximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work,
Continue readingSpartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three disabled entrepreneurs have told MPs that the government should
Continue readingSelf-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear