The despicable, uncaring nature of the DWP, and they show their ‘true colours’ with another disgraceful incidence. Ian Johnston writes in The Independent – A man with multiple sclerosis who cannot walk or feed himself...
A woman was left penniless after a hoax caller told the Department for Work and Pensions she was dead. Jobless Janet Millward’s £240-a-fortnight housing benefit and disability living allowance were stopped. The tax office also...
DWP has accepted the majority of the recommendations from the fifth Independent Review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The final review, which was carried out by Dr. Paul Litchfield, was published in November 2014....
The benefits system is “no longer providing an adequate safety net” for the poorest families, with “devastating effects” for vulnerable youngsters, a children’s charity is warning. In a report on recent changes to the welfare...
Victoria Austin reports in the Daily Star, today, that a man who pocketed £26,000 in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments has been jailed for six months. Alan Bannister exaggerated his arthritis for eight years...
The Government has been heavily criticised after a series of blunders left an elderly pensioner £26,000 worse off. The Pension Service – part of the Department for Work and Pensions – failed to send a...
The DWP have just released new figures which show that the average waiting time for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has more than halved since last summer. This improvement is due to a range of factors...
Nigel Nelson Political Editor of the Sunday People reports that at least 200.000 people will be worse off under the Universal Credit system according to Labour. They are challenging Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan...
More than 2,000 people are living off benefits because they are too fat to work. The number of obese claimants has almost doubled in Britain since 1997. Some experts have blasted the fatties as “lazy”,...
Several newspapers today are running the story of a Roma gypsy who is using £60,000 of British handouts to build a mansion in his own country. Scrap metal dealer Ion Lazar plans to pay for...
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