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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

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  “The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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The PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for

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The PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue

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Shocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide

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By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people

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Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

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Image Courtesy of Winvisible   By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs

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Benefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

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By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf

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A Senior Judge Has Suggested Charging The Government For Every “No-Brainer” Benefits Case It Loses In Court

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By Emily Dugan https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/most-dwp-benefits-cases-which-reach-court-are-based-on-bad?utm_term=.vdNwjXxjE6&ref=mobile_share#.rlzN1aX1Ar Britain’s most senior tribunal judge says most of the benefits cases that reach court are based

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