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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 disabled people to ask how she plans to penalise government contractors Atos and Capita, following last week’s “devastating” revelations about … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anita Bellows, Assessments, Atos, Capita, John Slater, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, SNP, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Lloyd, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive culture of mistrust”, fuelled by widespread claims that assessors are deliberately trying to prevent disabled people receiving the support they … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Atos, Capita, DWP, Frank Field, Heidi Allen, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats

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By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why they failed to ask the minister for disabled people about shocking figures that suggest attempted suicides among people claiming out-of-work … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, NatCen, Sally McManus, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

More than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject claims for personal independence payment (PIP) are eventually being overturned, new figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, Stephen Lloyd, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Minister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors

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By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key recommendations made by the independent reviewer of its new disability benefit, which would have made it easier for claimants to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Court orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment

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By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017   A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be awarded £5,000 compensation by the government contractor Atos, after a dishonest report by one of its assessors led to her … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Conservatives, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | Leave a reply

Expert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test

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By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its much-criticised “fitness for work” test appears to have suggested that the assessment should be scrapped and replaced with a radically … Continue reading →

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Posted in Dr Gordon Waddell, Dr Paul Litchfield, Professor Nicholas Watson, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Fury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures

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By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017   “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee for refusing to ask the minister for disabled people about figures showing attempted suicides among people claiming out-of-work disability benefits … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Frank Field, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, MHRN, Mo Stewart, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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 that the “terrifying insecurity” caused by the government’s regime of disability benefit assessments is driving disabled women to destitution, and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Assessments, Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Winvisible, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Winvisible | Leave a reply

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 of the government should be held accountable for failing to report what they are told accurately, MPs have been told. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Assessments, Atos, CAB, Capita, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Involve North West, Maximus, PIP, Southampton Advice and Representation Centre, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 5 Replies

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

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  By John Pring Disability News Service  2nd November 2017   Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told a Commons inquiry that disability benefit assessment reports completed on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions are filled … Continue reading →

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Posted in Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, PIP, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

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By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who assess disabled people for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP). Disability … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Capita, DRUK, DWP, Inclusion London, Labour Party, Neil Coyle, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 6 Replies

Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017   Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the UK’s progress on implementing the disability rights convention may be ignoring links between the government’s welfare reforms and the deaths … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Atos, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

PIP investigation: MPs’ evidence session confirms concerns, but dodges dishonesty claims

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported problems with the accuracy of personal independence payment (PIP) assessment reports, MPs have been told. An urgent session of the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Benefit Resolutions, Citizens Advice Bureau, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, PIP, SARC, Work and Pensions Select Committee, Z2K | Tagged Atos, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, 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

Spartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work, health and disability green paper, accusing ministers of creating a “smokescreen” to disguise their intention to cut support and force … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, GP, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Austerity, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Green Paper, Human rights, Improving Lives Paper, John Pring, Politics, Smokescreen Report, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Self-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three disabled entrepreneurs have told MPs that the government should make it easier for people with impairments to move into self-employment. Jane Cordell, Sara McKee and Robert Winstanley were giving … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, DWP, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefits, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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