Rachel Charlton-Dailey

3 days ago | thecanary.co | Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Yesterday, after eight long years, a coroner ruled that Jodey Whiting’s death was the result of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopping her disability benefits. Jodey Whiting: the DWP killed herIn late 2016, 42-year-old mother of nine Jodey Whiting missed a letter informing her the DWP needed to reassess her for Employment Support Allowance, which subsequently meant she missed the appointment.

1 week ago | thecanary.co | Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Rachel Charlton-Dailey looks at ‘Taking The PIP’ – a new campaign around Labour’s cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) support for chronically ill and disabled peopleI’ve been horrendously busy this week, as after weeks of organising a campaign I’ve been working hard to pull together to take a stand against disability benefits cuts finally launched on Tuesday 27 May. Taking The PIP is a national campaign which is headed up by some of the most well-known disabled people in the UK.

1 week ago | thecanary.co | Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Whilst Keir Starmer’s government is professing that they just want to help the poor disableds back into work, their actions are saying otherwise – most notably right now is whatever the fuck is going on with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Access To Work scheme. As the Canary revealed a few weeks ago, the DWP is sneaking out changes to the Access To Work grant that helps support disabled people in work by paying for support workers and specialist equipment.

3 weeks ago | thecanary.co | Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Whilst the Labour government is fighting a potential rebellion in its ranks due to their proposed benefits cuts, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released more stats which prove why the benefits cuts aren’t needed – namely, the figures around fraud and error, especially PIP. DWP releases latest ‘benefit fraud’ figuresThe Fraud and Error in the Benefit System report is an annual report that is published every May and provides information on how much is overpaid in benefits each year.

3 weeks ago | thecanary.co | Rachel Charlton-Dailey

While media personalities and politicians are pretending to be puzzled by why so many people are suddenly claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), newly published research has the answers- and it comes from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) itself. Yet this report has been hidden by successive governments – including Labour – until one journalist got it via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.