The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of ...

Disabled activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to appoint former work and pensions secretary James Purnell as his new chief of staff. Purnell, who ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal ...

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms ...

The minister leading the review into personal independence payment (PIP) has told fellow MPs that there “may well be ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to correct figures in its annual report that hugely underestimate the number of disabled benefit claimants who had their claims closed as part of ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed for years to comply with its legal duties under the Equality Act by refusing to provide an accessible way for many disabled people to communicate with ...

The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told MPs that he hopes DWP’s use of artificial intelligence in detecting fraud among benefit claimants will not lead to ...

A new Department for Work and Pensions overpayments scandal could be brewing, after a series of reports that disabled people receiving certain benefits are being overpaid universal credit. Disabled ...

Labour’s general secretary has promised that he will put an end to the years of discrimination experienced by disabled party members. David Evans, the party’s general secretary since last year, told a ...

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has warned that harsh new policies that are forcing more disabled people to attend weekly face-to-face jobcentre meetings could lead to benefit ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a failing organisation in a “state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits systems, according to a “devastating” dossier of evidence from ...