The Labour Party government has plans to cut health benefit levels under radical reforms to overhaul the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems. Labour Party MP Alison McGovern, the employment ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a new update over Work Capability Assessments and audio recordings for people who claim Personal Independence Payments (PIP). The DWP has issued an ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that it would be “abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)” and that following this, eligibility to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that it would be “abolishing the Work ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liz Kendall said she would be meeting with disabled people and organisations to conduct the review. (Alamy) (Uwe Deffner) The ...

DWP minister Sir Stephen Timms said plans to abolish the Work Capability Assessment cannot move ahead until the independent review of Personal Independence Payment concludes this autumn.

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s welfare reforms. This spring the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) outlined ...

Liberal Democrat MP Steve Darling has urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling automated recording of health assessment information ...