DWP
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Shaping future support: The health and disability Green Paper
Every clinical lead in the UK demanded that the WCA should be abolished, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Medical Association, and the British Psychological Society, who all identified the WCA as being unfit for purpose. Continue reading
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British grandmother dies weighing just 42 pounds after her benefits are withdrawn
The death of 61-year-old grandmother, Christine McCluskey, at the hands of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a criminal act. Christine, from Dundee, Scotland, was an extremely ill and vulnerable woman who died weighing just 3 stone (42 pounds). Millions were shocked when they saw her emaciated body in national newspapers and on… Continue reading
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The DWP’s latest coronavirus move is utterly twisted
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has descended into further chaos amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But its latest move to try and keep itself afloat amid ‘unprecedented times’ is actually utterly twisted. Continue reading
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Kleptotors and the DWP
By TruePublica Editor: You’ve just been unexpectedly transported to the alien nation of Kleptotors 186. The planet has substantial mineral wealth and food diversity and is populated with a sophisticated society arranged around the type of democratic principles we are used to back on Earth. Unfortunately, the wealth of the Kleptos has come about through… Continue reading
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People Keep Starving to Death in Tory Britain
Errol Graham was just four and a half stone when his emaciated body was found by bailiffs. The 57 year old had starved to death in a flat with no electricity or gas supply. The only food in his cupboards were two tins of fish, four years out of date. His benefits had been stopped… Continue reading
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The death of Errol Graham: Latest tragedy is linked to 10 years of DWP deaths
A disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly stopped is the latest in a long line of fatalities that can be linked to failings and deliberate policy decisions by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Continue reading
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UK: Welfare Weekly 11 January 2020
11 January 2020 — Welfare Weekly Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions Read more Continue reading
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Knight of Darkness – Iain Duncan Smith’s Directory Of Death
Part of this headline is taken from an article that features in Welfare Weekly. That article is a roll-call of death caused by an ideology that, in part, ended up looking like a policy to deliberately kill the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. The headline is borderline when it comes to being libellous… Continue reading
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DWP: The case for the prosecution
This time last year, The Independent published a story where Ministers were accused of ‘failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives’ after it emerged that nine disability claimants die each day (270 per month) while waiting for decisions on disability support. The story also stated that figures at the time revealed that… Continue reading
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Police surveillance used to report disabled protesters to UK government for alleged benefit fraud By Dennis Moore
Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, spoke at a conference in Belfast last month to warn that innocent people are being caught up in a mass surveillance system enacted by the UK government to combat welfare “benefit fraud.” Continue reading
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Penniless and vulnerable disabled – ‘most now waiting a year’ as lives disintegrate and thousands die
By TruePublica: The vulnerable, penniless and disabled are the very people any civilised country would ensure had at least the basics to survive and be comfortable. But while MP’s are looking the other way, these very same people are denied a benefit called Personal Independence Payment (PIP). It’s designed to keep them afloat, but now… Continue reading
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DWP’s £51m contract stops Citizens Advice speaking out against Universal Credit
New evidence shows that a £51m contract between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Citizens Advice (CA) contains a gagging clause. As Universal Credit rolls out across the UK, this agreement means the UK’s leading advisory charity now can’t speak out or take “any actions” which might harm the DWP’s reputation. Continue reading
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UK: Department of Work and Pensions “followed policy” denying benefits to dying Liverpool man By Dennis Moore
An internal review by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) following the horrific death of Stephen Smith is an insult to a man who was forced to endure terrible hardship fighting for the welfare benefits to which he was entitled. Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 17 March 2019
17 March 2019 — Welfare Weekly Universal Credit split payments given to only 20 claimants DWP ignoring the needs of vulnerable claimants at risk of domestic abuse, says SNP. Read more Continue reading
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DWP tells GPs not to support benefit claimants with sick notes By Sue Jones
Yesterday on Twitter, I posted one of my previous posts –Jobcentre tells GP to stop issuing sick notes to patient assessed as ‘fit for work’ and he died–in which I discuss a letter addressed to a GP regarding a seriously ill patient. Continue reading
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Psychological tyranny prescribed by the DWP: preventable harm is government policy
Influenced by corporate America, the commonly labelled ‘welfare reforms’ began in July 2006 with the introduction of the Welfare Reform Bill by the New Labour government, and guaranteed that claimants of long-term out-of-work sickness and disability benefit were to be coerced and intimidated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) simply for committing the… Continue reading
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UK’s most vulnerable subjected to welfare decisions by algorithm
Big Brother Watch wrote to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (before his visit) to raise the alarm about the hidden use of automation and predictive analytics for decisions about benefits entitlements and social care, and the negative human rights impact on the UK’s poorest people. The submission follows them sending… Continue reading
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Barbarian Britain: The letter The Guardian refused to publish
Influenced by corporate America, the deplorable treatment by the DWP of chronically ill and disabled people, who live in fear of the WCA, is well documented and the Guardian had published letters in the past on the same subject yet failed to acknowledge this significant anniversary and failed to publish the letter. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 