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DWP secretly weakened guidance on suicides after public pledge | Disability News Service

Why would a government organisation secretly weaken its own rules on when to investigate deaths on its watch? Doesn’t that imply a guilty conscience? Here’s Disability News Service: The…

Data Protection Bill only targets the poor | Left Foot Forward

Last week, the Tory government rushed through changes to its new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that will allow it to examine the bank accounts of pensioners for no good reason. In an…

By monitoring pensioner bank accounts, Tories are ushering in ‘surveillance society’

Last week, the Tory government rushed an amendment to its Data Protection and Digital Information Bill through the House of Commons that means future UK governments will be able to look into the ba…

Sick and disabled people are dying while trying to claim benefits; Tory press calls them ‘scroungers’ again

The Conservatives seem to have launched another attack on sickness and disability benefit claimants – labelling them as “scroungers” again, even though many are dying before they …

If DWP monitors your social media activity, who decides what’s consistent with benefit claims?

This is a little worrying: [Benefit fraud] investigators may … check … social media accounts and search … online profiles for pictures, location check-ins, and other evidence whic…

Call for urgent inquiry into ‘covert surveillance’ in benefit assessments | Disability News Service

This is not the same as the plan to record benefit assessments. I just wanted to put that right at the top. Here’s what it is about: MPs are calling for an urgent government investigation int…