“A target-driven culture created perverse incentives” – I think we can agree with this recent article from charity Turn2us relating to a report by the National Audit Office. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)...
Disabled people are facing punitive sanctions and perverse incentives when trying to claim allowances which are damaging their health and placing barriers in the way of their efforts to seek work. Researchers at the University...
The fund is the latest in a range of government measures that aims to see 1 million more disabled people in work by 2027. A £4.2 million challenge fund to support people with mental health...
Read how benefit sanctions can affect people’s lives A sanction is a cut or temporary cessation in your benefit if you fail to meet your claimant commitment without good reason. If you do this on...
Jobseekers who are homeless or suffering from a mental health condition will now be able to access hardship payments immediately after a benefit sanction. Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green has announced that jobseekers who are homeless...
New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost half (48%) of low income households are not claiming the welfare benefits and tax credits they could be entitled to. This is despite the...
Charlie Cooper for The Independent – A DWP study finds almost 80% affected by the Bedroom Tax run out of money by the end of the week. The Study also reveals almost half have cut back...
Fraud and error in the benefit system has dropped to the lowest level ever, falling by £350 million last year. New figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that benefit fraud...
Cahal Milno writing in The Independent – A coroner concluded for the first time that a man with severe mental illness killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work” by the...
Jon Stone writing for The Independent (17/09/2015) – People on the programme report worsening health problems and reducing work motivation. The Government’s Work Programme is making the lives of people with mental health problems worse...
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