The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued an update on how it plans to tackle the backlog of 100,000 people currently waiting for Work Capability Assessments. Claimants of benefits like ...

Regions where the Government's controversial "fit for work" assessments have been carried out have seen hundreds of extra suicides and thousands more prescriptions being issued for anti-depressants, ...

The disturbing realities of the work capability assessment are at odds with government rhetoric about helping people back to work, argues Mathew Little – who has been through the process. “Politics as ...