What did we expect? Benefit assessors haven’t progressed towards improving safeguards for the vulnerable
This should make your blood boil. Yes, there’s a crisis going on involving the coronavirus pandemic. That shouldn’t mean work …
Category Archives: Employment and Support Allowance
Coronavirus: trust Iain Duncan Smith to try to wreck our chances of survival
It had to be him. Iain Duncan Smith, creator of the huge increase in poverty in the UK since 2010, …
Tories suspend face-to-face benefit assessments amid coronavirus crisis – but what’s behind their compassionate veneer?
They took their time about it. And one has to question whether it would have happened without pressure from organisations …
New DWP sickness/disability assessment trial could be more confused than current system
I had hoped that perhaps I was the only one who was confused by the latest Tory plan for sickness …
Hunger striker hoped to highlight the faults of Universal Credit and PIP
A Leicestershire man went on hunger strike for nearly seven weeks to highlight problems with Universal Credit. Angus Silverstone, 58, …
Damning verdict on DWP: ‘British citizens are dying as a result of policies implemented by this government’
A bullying lawyer acting for the Tory government at the inquest of Errol Graham tried to claim that the man, …
Are they dead? The DWP has lost 70,000 benefit claimants since 2014, ‘saving’ £75m
Are they dead? At least one in eight people eligible for Employment and Support Allowance have fallen off the Department …
Johnson’s ‘independent’ inquiry into benefit claimant death is anything but independent
This isn’t even shocking any more. Boris Johnson has claimed that there will be an independent inquiry into the death …
Tory delaying tactics mean people are STILL dying before receiving state benefits they’re owed
I’ve just read this, on the excellent Poor side of life blog: A woman who we’ve spoken to before… looked me …
Untrustworthy: DWP backtracks over savings created by cut to long-term sickness benefit
Why is the DWP trying to hide the figures on the cut it inflicted on Employment and Support Allowance claimants, …