DWP loses court fight over treatment of severely disabled

dolfrog

DWP loses court fight over treatment of severely disabled
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/29/dwp-loses-court-fight-over-treatment-of-severely-disabled 

Adrian_Scope

Thanks for sharing @dolfrog. Interesting article. 

dolfrog

It just gets worse.
The death of Errol Graham shows why the DWP’s approach to benefits is broken 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/death-errol-graham-dwp-benefits-ill-disabled 

Naughtynan

dolfrog said:

It just gets worse.
The death of Errol Graham shows why the DWP’s approach to benefits is broken 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/death-errol-graham-dwp-benefits-ill-disabled 

Thank you for posting this and the earlier link. Reading them both has literraly made me cry as it's exactly how I've experienced the benefit system especially in the past 2/3 years. I hope they make the system disable friendly, not isolate them even more than already are.

TeddyB22

Hopefully this will lead to a rethink with regards to UC and the loss of the disability premiums. I lost the edp & sdp when I had to claim UC. They should just include the premiums with it.
I read the story of Erroll Graham and it made me so sad. It's a shame he didn't have anyone looking out for him. Just a call or a text to someone to let them know you are thinking of them is so important.