The DWP has also recently confirmed that all ESA claimants who haven't submitted their Universal Credit claim within a fortnight of their migration notice deadline will 'automatically enter the ...

The scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits faces a major overhaul, with ministers promising to extend a "revolution" of getting more people into work. A consultation on reforming the ...

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 ...

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 resignation of the Conservative Mayor of Swindon following his appalling comments about disabled people was a reminder of the discrimination that far too many of our fellow citizens face every day ...

Ben Baumberg receives funding from the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC), and has received past funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the charity ...

A dad claims he's surviving on a muffin a day after enduring an 11-month delay for the results of his Work Capability Assessment. Stephen Pugh, 51, from Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent, was plunged into ...

COBIT 5 uses the Process Assessment Model (PAM) based on ISO 15504, whereas COBIT 2019 supports a Capability Maturity Model Integration, CMMI-based process-capability scheme, ranging from zero to five ...

A new company given the contract to assess disabled people for a sickness benefit has told the BBC it will do one million assessments this year. Maximus is being paid £595m over three years to carry ...

The scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits faces a major overhaul, with ministers promising to extend a "revolution" of getting more people into work. A consultation on reforming the ...