G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme...
View ArticleBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any further co-operation with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it...
View ArticleShock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related...
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into work activity “Very dangerous” rules are forcing severely-ill...
View ArticleNobody is Unfit for Work
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and identifying measures to help you and other claimants. It would be good to have some feedback on...
View ArticleMinisters’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for new social security legislation were dropped from last week’s Queen’s speech....
View ArticleConcerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rules that explain which benefit claimants will no longer have...
View ArticleI work for the DWP as a universal credit case manager – and what I’ve seen is...
Reblogged From Independant Newspaper http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/universal-credit-dwp-worker-case-manager-benefits-system-government-food-banks-a7998196.html I see so much suffering on a daily...
View ArticleOpen letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP
By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 Disabled activists have called on the charity Mind to explain how seconding a senior member of staff to work for the Department for Work and...
View ArticleCharities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’
By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the...
View ArticleDWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent them criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proof that...
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