#DWP
My £77-a-week benefits were taken away - I've spent 2 years fighting to get them back
https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/21/my-77-a-week-disability-benefits-were-taken-away-19527731/?ITO=msn
Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families | Schools | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/21/calls-to-shut-down-bristol-schools-use-of-think-family-education-app-pupils-and-families
#Discrimation
#Minorities
#Schools
#Bristol
#ThinkFamilyEducatonApp
#Safeguarding
#Police
#ChildProtection
#Monitoring
#Profiling
#WelfareServices
#FairTrails
#Surveillace
#NoMoreExclusionsBristol
#InstituteOfRaceRelations
#DWP
Tax Credits claimants moving to Universal Credit may lose out
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/09/01/tax-credits-universal-credit-lose-out/
#TaxCredits
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#CPAG
#DWP
#ManagedMigrationToUC
PIP review delay claimants missing out on £24 million a month
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/pip-review-delay-claimants-missing-out-on-%C2%A324-million-a-month
#universal credit #UC #personal independence payment #PIP #claiming disability living allowance #disability #mental health #DLA #claim DLA #employment and support allowance #ESA #work capability assessment #appeals #appealing #training #attendance allowance #AA #department for work and pensions #DWP
Returning to the ever lovely and caring #DWP, I wonder if they are in some sort of weird competition with the Home Office to be the most detested Government Department?
#GTTO
DWP stops woman’s benefits after she said she worked one second over limit | Benefits | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/08/dwp-stops-womans-benefits-after-she-said-she-worked-one-second-over-limit
@ChrisMayLA6
There's is no "requirement" to reduce #DWP budget. It's a choice by the #NastyParty
Another confirmation (should you require it) of the inhumanity & callousness of the #DWP (driven by a requirement to reduce its budget, no doubt).
As Louise Rubin (Scope) sums it up:' Situations like these are why disabled people have so little trust in our welfare system. The system is cold, harsh and uncaring.... In a cost of living crisis it’s more important than ever that we have a system that works with disabled people rather than against them'!
I’ve had my benefits cut off for working one second over the limit. How can the DWP be so vindictive?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/benefits-cut-working-department-work-pensions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#BenefitsCuts
#DWP
#Poverty
I like to think I’m a capable person, but even I can’t navigate Britain’s benefits system | Sophie | The Guardian
(July2023 but still relavent)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/britain-benefits-system-universal-credit
Work capability test changes ‘could cost some claimants £400 a month’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/work-capability-test-changes-could-cost-some-claimants-400-a-month
#WCA
#WorkinggFromHome
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#UnfitForWork
#UnfitToWork
#Poverty
#DWP
Tories lied again: The Work Capability Assessment is back | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/09/06/tories-lied-again-the-work-capability-assessment-is-back/
#Work Capability Assessment #DWP #Department for Work and Pensions #sick #disabled #disability #Conservative #ToryDemocide #Tories
People deemed unable to work ‘face having benefits reduced under DWP plan’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/people-deemed-unable-to-work-face-having-benefits-reduced-under-dwp-plan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#DWP
#BenefitsCut
#WorkDisability
Whoops. Hit post by accident
Hash tag list:
Tories take benefits from the poor to pay ‘forgotten’ debt
https://socialistworker.co.uk/the-troublemaker/tory-take-benefits-from-the-poor-to-pay-forgotten-debt/
#Benefits
#Tories
#Poverty
#TaxCredits
#TaxCreditOverpayment
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#Debt
#DWP
#Deductions
#DeductionsFromBenefits
Tax Credits claimants moving to Universal Credit may lose out
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/09/01/tax-credits-universal-credit-lose-out/
#TaxCredits
#UniversalCredit
#UC
#ChildPovertyActionGroup
#CPAG
#DWP
#ManagedMigrationToUC
Once again the #DWP is in the spotlight over its opaque and secretive use of #AI to assess social security claims.
They have been body-swerving accountability and transparency for far too long; failing to publish details of bias and outcomes of impact assessments (if they have even done any) is highly irresponsible and negligent.
Exclusive: Disabled people are ‘set up to fail’ by the DWP in target-driven disability benefits system, whistleblowers reveal
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefits-claimants-fail-whistleblowers/
No10 crackdown on racism as minister warns officials n-word slurs won’t be tolerated | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/racist-slur-n-word-uk-government-b2395394.html
#Racism
#No10
#CabinetOffice
#Tories
#DWP
#ForeignOffice
#MetOffice
#RoyalCollectionTrust
#RoyalCollection
#RCT
netmums repeats DWP propaganda over Universal Credit changes
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/18/universal-credit-parents-forced-work-netmums/
#DWP
#BackToWork
#WorseOffInWork
#MakingWorkPay
#MakingWorkPayNot
#ChildcareCosts
#Sanctions
#TimePoverty
#Poverty
#Children
700,000 people to be hit by punitive #DWP #UniversalCredit changes, as netmums plays it down https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/18/universal-credit-parents-forced-work-netmums/
On the phone to #DWP. Getting through AVH* took seven minutes. Seven whole minutes of pressing buttons and speaking to a bot, just to get put in the queue. What happens to people who are already at the end of their tether?
*Automated Voice Hell
Get on your bike and deliver takeaways to earn extra cash, minister tells over 50s | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mel-stride-deliveroo-delivering-takeaways-b2386789.html
#Stride
#WorkAndPensionsSecretary
#DWP
#Over50s
#Deliveroo
#Tories
#Disabled
#MidLifeMOTs
#Employers
#GetOnYourBike
Finally, an inquiry into #DWP deaths!
I had a #PIP telephone assessment today.
When I say 'today', I mean 'all day yesterday and most of today so far'
How tormenting, incompetent and entitled are the thugs employed by whatever #DWP contracted third-party privately-held offshore-entity millionaire cash machine is doing PIP assessments
#UniversalCredit
#NHS
#GTTO
Parliament will finally debate #PIP and how the #DWP manages it. MPs must be there. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/07/18/pip-dwp-debate-parliament/
With readers reporting huge monthly savings, why aren’t more switching to social tariff broadband?
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/with-readers-reporting-huge-monthly-savings,-why-aren%E2%80%99t-more-switching-to-social-tariff-broadband
#UC #PIP #claiming disability living allowance #disability #mental health #DLA #claim DLA #employment and support allowance #ESA #work capability assessment #appeals #appealing #training #attendance allowance #AA #department for work and pensions #DWP
No 10 ‘confident’ no other racial slurs in official documents as it refuses n-word investigation | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-racist-slur-investigation-refuse-b2370597.html
#Racism
#No10Downing
#RacialSlurs
#BritishInstitutions
#DWP
#MetOffice
#SNP
#GreenParty
#Labour
#DWP guidance on benefit assessments forced to be withdrawn over n-word slur
Unbelievable that it was used at all
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dwp-guidance-document-scrapped-slur-b2368917.html
Government benefits guidance forced to be withdrawn over racial slur | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-advice-doctors-n-word-b2368391.html
#DWP
#Racism
#RacistSlur
#BenefitAssessments
#Colonialism
#ATOS
#Osteoporosis
What. the actual. fuck.
🤬🤬
"DWP guidance on benefit assessments forced to be withdrawn over n-word slur
Deeply offensive racist term used in DWP benefits guidelines since 2010 – and only removed after Independent investigation"
#FuckTheTories #DWP #UKPolitics #Racism
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fhome-news%2Fgovernment-advice-doctors-n-word-b2368391.html
#DWP crowing about extra disabled cost of living payment - but it barely scratches surface https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-crowing-extra-disabled-cost-30291428
The news in tweets: June 18, 2023 | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/06/18/the-news-in-tweets-june-18-2023/
#nurse #strike #DWP #Labour #North_East Mayor #asylum #barge #government #contract
DWP announces another NHS-based work programme
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/14/the-dwps-invasion-of-the-nhs-continues-gps-can-now-refer-disabled-people-for-voluntary-work-placements/
#Disability
#Disabled
#ChronicallySick
#ChronicallyIll
#DWP
#VoluntaryWork
#VoluntaryNotVoluntary
#EmploymentSupport
#IndividualPlacementAndSupportInPrimaryCare
#IPSPC
#Outsourcing
#NHS
#GPs
#NotJustClaimants
#DWPInNHS
#Privatisation
#USModelHealthcare
#MentalHealth
#MedicalRecords
#IPS
#WorkAsTreatmentForMHIssues
#ME
#ExcerciseTherapy
#CostCutting
The #DWP’s invasion of the #NHS continues: GPs can now refer disabled people for voluntary work placements https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/14/the-dwps-invasion-of-the-nhs-continues-gps-can-now-refer-disabled-people-for-voluntary-work-placements/
It starts gently, with:
"Whitehall’s efforts to transform the quality of its #data continue to be too slow and must be prioritised."
One of my favourite (not) #UKGovernment departments is up first for a roasting:
"The #DWP allowed its #data systems to grow so complex that it did not understand the risks that were piling up, as #pensioners lost out on money they were owed."
Court forces DWP to change scheme deducting cash from benefits to pay debts/bills | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/06/11/court-forces-dwp-to-change-scheme-deducting-cash-from-benefits-to-pay-debts-bills/
#Third_Party Deduction #TPD #scheme #DWP #Department #Work #Pensions #Court #High #Appeal #unlawful
#DWPCrimes
#ToryDemocide
#ToryScumOut
Why are so few claimants choosing broadband social tariff?
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/why-are-so-few-claimants-choosing-broadband-social-tariff
#universal_credit #UC #personal_independence payment #PIP #claiming_disability living allowance #disability #mental_health #DLA #claim_DLA #employment_and support allowance #ESA #work_capability assessment #appeals #appealing #training #attendance_allowance #AA #department_for work and pensions #DWP
The #DWP’s latest #UniversalCredit change is yet more nonsense, and will still leave people worse off https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/05/31/universal-credit-dwp-changes-parents/
The main points: it’s Vox Political’s morning headlines | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05/31/the-main-points-its-vox-politicals-morning-headlines/
#DWP #Department #Work #Pensions #disabled #disability #benefit #appeal #food #price #inflation #Labour #health #privatisation #Wes #Streeting #energy #companies #firms #profit #consult
Universal Credit: DWP plans could cut 632,000 people's benefits
#UniversalCredit
#DWP
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnTheDisabled
#Disability
#ChronicallyIll
#WorkCapabilityAssessment
#WCA
#PIP
#LimitedCapabilityForWork
#LCWRA
#NoSickDisabilityUCWithoutPIP
#WorkCoachesAssessingWorkCapability
#WorkCoaches
#NoESAWithoutPIP
#PIPsRigidCriteria
#DenialOfBenefits
#StoppingBenefitsDoesntGetPeopleInToWork
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/05/26/the-dwps-latest-universal-credit-plans-could-see-it-stop-632000-peoples-benefits/
The #DWP’s latest #UniversalCredit plans could see it stop 632,000 peoples’ benefits https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/05/26/the-dwps-latest-universal-credit-plans-could-see-it-stop-632000-peoples-benefits/
Over half a million UC claimants sanctioned in a year for not attending interview
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/over-half-a-million-uc-claimants-sanctioned-for-not-attending-interview?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Benefits%20and%20Work&utm_content=V2%2024%20May%202023%20Newsletter
The #DWP just pulled a fast one over the #UniversalCredit increase, conning countless claimants https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/05/18/the-dwp-just-pulled-a-fast-one-over-the-universal-credit-increase-conning-countless-claimants/
If DWP monitors your social media activity, who decides what’s consistent with benefit claims? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05/14/if-dwp-monitors-your-social-media-activity-who-decides-whats-consistent-with-benefit-claims/
#DWP #Department #Work._Pensions #decision #maker #unqualified #monitor #social #media #disabled #benefit #claimant #fraud
Report on how officials failed to prevent Errol Graham’s death is compromised by dishonesty | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05/13/report-on-how-officials-failed-to-prevent-errol-grahams-death-is-compromised-by-dishonesty/
#Errol #Graham #DWP #Department #Work #Pensions #ESA #Employment #Support #Allowance #Nottingham #Safeguarding #Adults #review #board #DWPcrimes #ToryDemocide #ToryMurderers
DWP plans to further dehumanise disabled people
DWP decisions around deciding fitness for work and work-related activity through the WCA have been linked to countless deaths over the last 15 years, but there are now fears that the government’s plans could lead to even more deaths.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/05/dwp-plans-to-further-dehumanise-disabled-people/
#DPAC #DWP #TransformingSupportwhitepaper #workcapabilityassessment #work-relatedinterviews
It took 3 months, but the DWP have finally given me all the information I asked for on Cold Weather Payment rates from its creation in 1986 until the present day: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cold_weather_payment_rate_from_c#outgoing-1455796
The Minister for #disabled people has decided that it might be a good idea to run a spoof video (where he channels Liam Neeson) to say the #DWP's response the minuscule levels of #disability #benefits #fraud will be:
'“We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice.” while wearing a stab vest...
as this article from Disability News Service explores at length, this has not gone down well....
Disability minister faces resignation calls after posting ‘dangerous’ and hostile video
“The committee received anonymous accounts from disabled people claiming they had been ‘tricked or tested’ by their assessors.
These included claimants who were made to park further away than necessary from the assessment centre to check how far they could walk, and lifts being placed out of order to force claimants to climb the stairs.”
This is evil. There’s no other word for it. I hope as an atheist that I’m wrong and that these fuckers burn in hell.
SHOCKING REVELATIONS! Giving poor people less money makes them poorer. They needed a report to tell them that. And even then they tried to stop it being published.
GPLB: "New DWP research shows benefits cap 'only results in making poor families poorer', says charity"
#DWP #UniversalCredit #CostOfVotingToryCrisis #UKPolitics #PovertyIsNotACrime
Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restrict
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/18/call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts #DWP #ExtinctionRebellion #MetPolice #netpol #Repression #Solidarity
Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restrict
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/18/call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts #DWP #ExtinctionRebellion #MetPolice #netpol #Repression #Solidarity
The system for claiming help with #NHS travel costs is so bloody archaic!
1. Spend an hour and a half on hold to get a human at #DWP
2. Request letter of evidence.
3. Told because of postal issues it will take max of 5 working days.
4. Wait for post
5. Wait for post
It’s been 7 working days and still not arrived.
This is why I loathe Tories so utterly, they are scum, pure and simple:
#DWP #DisabilityRights #GaggingOrder
#CitizensAdvice #CitizensAdviceScotland
*Note: for some reason, the URL sometimes goes to a cached version, make sure you're reading the one from Feb 2023 and not March 2022.
“During the worst winter in living memory for millions, the Department for Work and Pensions are persisting with a policy that penalises the most vulnerable – syphoning off deductions from already low benefits – and causing destitution”
Another important intervention from Gordon Brown in the Big Issue
From #bbc #bbcradio4's #moneybox's #PaulLewis a request: "Sorry to ask but...
Did you lose a spouse/CP in the last 18 months when you were under 66?
Do you know someone who did?
Did you or they claim #DWP #Bereavement #Support #Payment?
£2500+£100 a month for 18 months, or if you have kids £3500+£350 a month. Tweet, DM, or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk"
'Compassionate Conservatives' in action as the average benefit sanction is £262 per month. The charity, Feeding Britain's director, Andrew Forsey said: "Deductions and sanctions are two of the main recruiting sargeants for food banks."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-benefits-crackdown-hurls-brits-28585796
UK #petition: Full review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application process
Sign petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/620962/
Petition tracker with graph: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/620962
[ #disability #PIP #benefits #DWP ]