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(England) Tribunal rules release of benefit death reviews

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http://www.disabilitynewsservice.co...formation-from-secret-benefit-deaths-reviews/

From the Disability News Service;

Disability News Service (DNS) has won its appeal against the Department for Work and Pensions’ refusal to publish information from 49 secret reviews it conducted into the deaths of benefit claimants.
The decision of the information rights tribunal to allow the DNS appeal means the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should now be forced to hand over all of the information from the 49 “peer reviews” that does not directly relate to the people who died.

Some good news for people interested in what the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) knew about potential problems, and any actions or inactions that resulted.

(The Disability News Service has been a constant source of breaking news and information which is ignored by the Mainstream, and has been treated appallingly by the DWP Press Office) http://www.disabilitynewsservice.co...o-ban-questions-from-disability-news-service/
 
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The follow up http://www.disabilitynewsservice.co...-to-act-after-deaths-of-vulnerable-claimants/

I believe the most important conclusion from all these recommendations is this: that it is clear that ministers were repeatedly warned by their own civil servants that their policies to assess people for out-of-work disability benefits were putting the lives of “vulnerable” claimants at risk.

This is because many of the peer reviews – in fact, nearly all of those where it is possible to tell which benefits were involved – were commissioned following deaths linked to the work capability assessment (WCA), which tests eligibility for employment and support allowance (ESA).
 

wastwater

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You hear about people that were overpaid benefit and had to repay it,where are the people that were underpaid and got it given back ive not heard of this.
 
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From what I understand, if you are denied a benefit wrongly, you get your money backdated, but then you have to claim other money back as a maladministration claim.

Underpayments due to claimant or official error was £1.4 billion in 2012, and £1.5 billion in 2014/15.
 

wastwater

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They will backdate about a year,I wish there was a way to get 18 years worth backdated