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Originally Posted by Hugh
DWP doesn’t create the laws they administer- Parliament does.
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The management of the DWP give staff policies, procedures & guidance to work to. No doubt Government ministers have leaned on them to use the areas open to interpretation and reasonableness to the detriment of claimants. This is then cascaded down to frontline staff.
Eg is it 'reasonable' to sanction a man for 'failing to complete a medical assessment' because he had a heart attack in the middle of it? Most right thinking people would say no (even though the reason for the sanction is technically correct). I'm confident that DWP staff would have made a sensible decision in the past, but under Cameron's continuing 'stricter benefits regime', he was sanctioned for this.
Man with broken back has enough of being repeatedly found fit for work eventually kills himself:
https://welfareweekly.com/benefit-cl...r-work-by-dwp/