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#universalcredit — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #universalcredit, aggregated by home.social.

  1. disabilitynewsservice.com/mp-a. "A #Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her #requests for #help, after a #constituent threatened with #sanctions over her #universalcredit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnel Green & Stepney... said that 'the fear of sanctions' had led to her constituent’s #mentalhealth deteriorating to the point that she made a #suicide attempt."

  2. disabilitynewsservice.com/mp-a. "A #Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her #requests for #help, after a #constituent threatened with #sanctions over her #universalcredit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnel Green & Stepney... said that 'the fear of sanctions' had led to her constituent’s #mentalhealth deteriorating to the point that she made a #suicide attempt."

  3. disabilitynewsservice.com/mp-a. "A #Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her #requests for #help, after a #constituent threatened with #sanctions over her #universalcredit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnel Green & Stepney... said that 'the fear of sanctions' had led to her constituent’s #mentalhealth deteriorating to the point that she made a #suicide attempt."

  4. disabilitynewsservice.com/mp-a. "A #Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her #requests for #help, after a #constituent threatened with #sanctions over her #universalcredit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnel Green & Stepney... said that 'the fear of sanctions' had led to her constituent’s #mentalhealth deteriorating to the point that she made a #suicide attempt."

  5. disabilitynewsservice.com/mp-a. "A #Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her #requests for #help, after a #constituent threatened with #sanctions over her #universalcredit claim attempted to take her own life. Rushanara Ali, the MP for Bethnel Green & Stepney... said that 'the fear of sanctions' had led to her constituent’s #mentalhealth deteriorating to the point that she made a #suicide attempt."

  6. disabilitynewsservice.com/univ. "An #autistic circus skills teacher took his own life after becoming increasingly distressed by the #bureaucratic #chaos caused by his 'migration' to #universalcredit [UC], which led to him facing a new £500 monthly charge for his #socialcare package." Yet another tragedy caused by #UC, & the #DWP.

  7. My paper, co-authored with Open Lab colleagues at Newcastle University, Clara Crivellaro, Adam W Parnaby, and Ahmed Kharrufa, titled "Hostile Systems: A Taxonomy of Harms Articulated by Citizens Living with Socio-Economic Deprivation" has now been published in the ACM CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904

    #digitalwelfare #welfarebenefits #universalcredit #egovernment #servicedesign #ethics #access #harms #responsibleinnivation

  8. #DWP errors leave more than 200,000 #pensioners £1.3bn out of pocket

    Report concludes government failed to fix basic mistakes and civil servants ‘asleep at the switch.

    165,000 also missed out on £1.2bn in the previous year, the #PublicAccountsCommittee (#PAC) found.
    theguardian.com/money/2023/dec

    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIneptitude #ToryFailure #ToryWaste #UniversalCredit #Gove