#claimants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #claimants, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reforms-jenrick-ignores-pip-fraud-evidence-and-claims-it-is-common-sense-that-claimants-are-gaming-the-system/. "The former #Tory #minister who wants to be #Chancellor in a #ReformUK #Government has been unable to provide any #evidence for his repeated #claim that #benefit #claimants with #mental #illhealth are 'gaming the #system'. Robert Jenrick ignored government #figures that show tiny levels of personal independence payment (#PIP) fraud, while he claimed that many claimants were 'scroungers' & that his views were simply 'common sense'." For which read, "common bigotry"!
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-admits-50-secret-investigations-into-claimant-deaths-led-to-calls-for-improvements-last-year/. "New figures have revealed that 50 #secret #investigations into the #deaths of #benefit #claimants led to internal calls for #improvements within the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) last year. Another 25 DWP investigations into cases of claimants suffering #serious #harm led to calls for improvements, or what the department calls 'key findings', in 2025-26."
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-quietly-reveals-how-universal-credit-flaws-were-linked-to-multiple-claimant-deaths-and-serious-harm/. "The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has been forced to publish #details of multiple #flaws within its #universalcredit working-age #benefits #system that led to #deaths & serious #harm to #claimants."
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-fails-to-correct-dodgy-figures-on-thousands-of-esa-claimants-who-dropped-out-in-move-to-universal-credit/. "The Department for Work & 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 move to #universalcredit."