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PM could be ejected from Downing Street if Welsh Labour loses Senedd elections in May, First Minister says
LABOUR veteran Margaret Hodge yesterday derided Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) work on the new personal independence payment (Pip) as “nothing short of a fiasco.”
The Commons public accounts committee, of which Ms Hodge is chairwoman, has launched a report on the replacement for disability living allowance castigating the DWP for a catalogue of failures
Ms Hodge said that the DWP’s failure to pilot the scheme had meant that many assumptions, such as how long assessments would take and how many face-to-face meetings with claimants were required, were proven incorrect.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
