More evidence that to work for the DWP first of all you have to have your soul & any humanity surgically removed before you are let loose to judge benefits claims....

I'm not sure the DWP can be reformed; like the Metropolitan Police, closure & re-establishment with different, more human mores & practices is what is required.

The DWP is only fit for purpose if the purpose is: denying benefits to people who should receive benefits!

#DWP #disability #benefits

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/09/blind-woman-denied-benefits-because-she-attended-dwp-interview-with-help-of-mother

"Much like when George Osborne aimed to cut the #disability benefits bill by a fifth, “#welfare reform” based on arbitrary cost-cutting says the quiet part out loud: #benefits won’t be awarded based on who needs them – just on what they cost."

#UKpolitics #Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/tax-and-spend-budget-disabled-people-austerity

Once again the DWP's inhumanity & callousness are on display in a forthcoming judicial review of the impact of 'non-consensual conception' on the two-child benefit cap.... unsurprisingly, as always, the DWP deploys its rules in a way that offers no inkling they regard befits recipients as people rather than merely numbers on a spreadsheet.

#DWP #benefits

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/04/mothers-to-take-department-for-work-and-pensions-to-court-over-inhumane-benefit-rules-on-non-consensual-conception

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