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 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against
Continue readingDisabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
Continue readingTo live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to
Continue readingWatchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
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 Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit
Continue readingBenefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings
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 February 8th 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and
Continue reading‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Outsourcing companies have been failing to request vital evidence from GPs
Continue readingThe PIP Files: DWP documents show ‘absolutely shocking’ failure on further evidence
John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no
Continue readingDWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases
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 4th Jan 2018 A nurse carrying out a disability benefit assessment fired questions
Continue readingAtos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures
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
Benefit assessments – exemption to protect vulnerable patients There is a great deal of evidence about the profound distress
Continue readingPIP & ESA Benefit Exemptions from Face to Face Assessments
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 September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has called for nurses and
Continue readingLabour conference: Benefit assessment nurses must be held to account, says Abrahams
By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its
Continue readingDWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial