DWP’s plan to raid PIP claimants’ bank accounts falls foul of the law
The DWP’s plan to raid PIP claimants’ bank accounts falls foul of the law, it seems.
Are there no lawyers left in Westminster to tell government ministers when they’re making a big mistake?
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If you don’t reverse this now. The @ECHR_CEDH will have to respond! pic.twitter.com/ar6khyKg7S
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Is this on the basis that benefits, once granted, are part of your stuff & the govt can’t just waltz in and take your stuff? If so, this was all gone through years ago and it was decided, IIRC, the notion had no legal substance. There are those who will remember this better than me, no doubt. I hope I’m wrong about this but I don’t think I am :-(
I spent many years with what’s now HMRC. Our department collected money using either agreements or legal action. One thing that applied (despite it never being an issue) was the fact that we (the Civil Service on behalf of the government) were exempt from some parts of the Human Rights Act due to ‘National Interest’. This isn’t a blanket exemption but covers enough to, I believe, mean this is not actually illegal. What’s being proposed is only a slight extension on what’s already done by the Civil Service (NB including all departments)