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DWP breaks promise again to stop harassing abuse survivor over benefit claim

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has again broken its promise to stop harassing a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Disabled Survivors Unite (DSU), DWP | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, PIP, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit assessments delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have seriously damaged their health, and how its failings will … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Disability Law Hub, DWP, EHRC, Recovery in the Bin | Tagged Disability Politics, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics | 3 Replies

Pushed to the Brink

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By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of claimants’ mental health, causing an increase in suicidal feelings Of late, there have been great strides made regarding the understanding … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Maximus, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits appears to have admitted that it is standard practice – approved by the government – to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Maximus, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the way the government assesses eligibility for a key disability benefit, after claimants with mental health conditions described how they had been … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, Disabled Survivors Unite, DWP | Tagged Atos, Capita, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Welfare Reform | 2 Replies

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