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Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against

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#Human Catastrophe, Dr Paul Litchfield, DWP, Micheal O'Sullivan, Prof Malcolm Harrington, Stephen Carre, WCA Deaths

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

April 26, 2018April 28, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing

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#Human Catastrophe, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Inclusion London, MHRN, Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, Recovery in the Bin, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), UC, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’

April 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it

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DWP, ICO, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, SNP

Mother of ESA suicide woman pledges to continue fight for justice

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly

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Black Triangle Campaign, Class War Scotland, DPAC Glasgow, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, Marion Nisbet, SNP

Mother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability

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Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart

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Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version

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Anita Bellows, Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP

YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship

April 6, 2018 JJ

Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a

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Assessments, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Phillipa Whitford, DRUK, DWP, Frank Field, Linda Burnip

Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay

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BuDS Buckingham Disability Service, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip

DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th Feburary 2018 Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler

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Black Triangle Campaign, Debbie Abrahams, DRUK, Inclusion London, John McArdle, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Maggie Zolobajluk, Mo Stewart, ROFA

Benefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit

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#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

Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive

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DWP, MHRN, MInd, Work & Health programme

Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP

January 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 Disabled activists have called on the charity Mind to explain how

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#Human Catastrophe, NatCen, Sally McManus, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why

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#Human Catastrophe, Anne McGuire, Black Triangle Campaign, Blog, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Human Rights, ILF Fund, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, PIP Deaths, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Tory. Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, Stephen Lloyd, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

January 6, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject

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Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Minister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key

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Department of Health (DH), National Suicide Prevention Alliance, Samaritans

Samaritans refuses to criticise government over suicide report’s ESA failings

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A mental health charity has refused to criticise the government for

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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

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

December 22, 2017December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its

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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

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

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee

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