DWP staff admit ignoring safeguarding rules for vulnerable claimant
Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that there isn’t time to worry about safeguarding, nor do staff follow the rules around it all the time…
DWP benefit fraud shock as department finds some real cases of it
For once, the waste-of-space fraud unit at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has actually caught some real-life fraudsters leeching British taxpayers out of a tidy £53.9m. So naturally, the…
DWP forced to defend cut to YOUR Universal Credit benefits
Before voters head to the polls in the general election, another likely-to-be damning indictment of the Tories callous cuts to benefits will come to light. Specifically, the government must publish…
three things buried thanks to the general election
And we’re off! This week, of course, saw Rishi finally put his big boy pants on and call a general election – which conveniently buried a load of news about…
Lightning Process gaslights long Covid patients
The BBC has exposed how an insidious group of predatory charlatans have been gaslighting long Covid patients. It revolves around a pseudoscientific treatment known as the ‘Lightning Process’. It would…
general election already shows parties’ ignorance
On Wednesday 22 May, Rishi Sunak made his moist announcement about the upcoming general election on 4 July. However, there was no British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter anywhere to be…
DWP to face inquiry into deaths of disabled people
Today in “that bump under the rug? Oh it’s just important disabled news don’t look at that”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has announced they are launching an…
DWP PIP payments are being stopped due to internal errors
I’m supposed to be writing about something completely different right now, but as I was working on that I got some news that made my blood curdle. The DWP has…
180,000 stripped of DWP benefits in latest move
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stripped over 180,000 people of their benefits. It is doing so through its so-called ‘managed migration’ process. Specifically, this is where the…
DWP minister inadvertently reveals damning back to work figures
This week I wrote about how Keir Starmer’s Labour could be as dangerous for disabled people as the Tories and I’d like to correct myself there. Some of Labour is…
Spinal cord injury cases in the UK nearly double previous estimate
New data reveals the number of people injured or diagnosed with a spinal cord injury is approximately double that previously estimated. Spinal cord injury cases: drastically underestimated A new data…
BACME conference behind closed doors, as ME patients call it out
The 11 to 17 May 2024 is myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Week. This year, two major conferences are taking place throughout the week. One is the inaugural ‘Unite To Fight’…
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