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Kendall refuses to apologise after misleading MPs four times in 23 minutes about PIP cuts May 15, 2025
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has refused to apologise after repeatedly misleading MPs by suggesting that her planned cuts of billions of pounds to personal independence payment (PIP) were linked to supporting disabled people into work. On four occasions in just […]
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Parliament security confiscates ‘political’ book on DWP deaths from activists before PIP cuts debate May 15, 2025
Parliament has refused to criticise a security officer who confiscated a book about benefit deaths because it was “too political” as three disabled activists arrived to watch a debate on disability benefit cuts, and quizzed them about their medication. The three activists […]
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DWP must finally act on ‘deficient’ approach to safeguarding with a duty of care, say MPs May 15, 2025
A report from MPs today calls on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to introduce a new legal duty for it to safeguard “vulnerable” claimants of benefits, after decades of deaths and other harm linked to its policies and procedures. The […]
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Two terminally-ill women to complain to UN over passage of assisted dying bill through parliament May 15, 2025
Two terminally-ill disabled women are to lodge a complaint with the United Nations that the passage of a private members’ bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide breaches the UN disability convention. Nicki Myers and Nicola Waters believe key aspects of the […]
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Shocked disabled campaigners vow to fight on after MSPs vote for Scottish assisted dying bill to progress May 15, 2025
Disabled campaigners say they are shocked, angry and “confounded” by a vote by the Scottish parliament in favour of legalising assisted suicide in Scotland, but they have vowed to keep fighting to defeat the proposals. Members of the Scottish parliament voted 70 […]
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Mind faces discrimination claims after internal probe calls for multiple improvements on equality May 15, 2025
A disabled woman has accused Mind of discrimination after an internal investigation recommended that the mental health charity make multiple improvements to how it treats staff protected by the Equality Act. Kuziva Punungwe-Mutandiro has spoken to Disability News Service (DNS) after complaints […]
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Network Rail to spend £8 million on building an inaccessible footbridge that will last 120 years May 15, 2025
Network Rail’s decision to spend nearly £8 million building a new footbridge that will be inaccessible to many disabled people has been labelled an “appalling contradiction” of the government’s commitment to improving the accessibility of the public transport system. The footbridge (pictured) […]
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Crowdfunder in memory of Krissi Hunt could educate coroners on links between DWP and claimant deaths May 15, 2025
Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a way […]
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London theatre to host installation that exposes how DWP austerity measures led to countless deaths May 15, 2025
A major London theatre is to host an installation that exposes how Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) austerity measures caused countless deaths of benefit claimants, just as the new government tries to push through a new wave of spending cuts. It […]
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DWP helped cause mental distress of poverty-stricken benefit claimant who took her own life, says coroner May 8, 2025
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings contributed to the mental distress of a disabled woman who took her own life after being left with less than three pounds in her bank accounts, a coroner has concluded. An inquest in Stockport has […]
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