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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2023 20:31:09 GMT
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system China Mills china.mills@city.ac.uk and John PringView all authors and affiliations OnlineFirst doi.org/10.1177/02610183231187588journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02610183231187588Abstract In 2014, a long continuing battle began to find out more about Government record-keeping on the deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. Drawing on a timeline of evidence co-produced with disabled people, we analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) weaponise time as a strategy to avoid accountability and deny justice. DWP reviews into deaths are an under-researched yet significant focus because they are (supposedly) tools through which the DWP investigates the harms of its own policies, and yet, they are designed and carried out in a way that systemically invisibilise state accountability.
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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2023 11:24:21 GMT
How the DWP fought to withhold evidence its policies kill disabled people Analysis: By blocking the publication of reports, the DWP showed how to weaponise time to avoid accountability www.opendemocracy.net/en/dwp-disability-benefits-jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement/China Mills 22 November 2023, 4.38pm The welfare system has taken another hit today via a ‘benefits crackdown’ in Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement. Since the ‘welfare reform’ of 2007, disabled people have been on the receiving end of these dehumanising and punishing policies that make people out as ‘undeserving’, prioritise work over people, and make life unlivable. But we now have evidence the Department for Work and Pensions (DPW) knows its policies kill people. It has been repeatedly warned of this fact and has even confirmed it in its own research. It took years of campaigning by disabled people to uncover this evidence, which largely comes in the form of DWP reviews into deaths of claimants. Now it has been brought together as part of the Deaths by Welfare project at Healing Justice London. Since 2021, journalist John Pring and I have been creating a timeline – co-produced with disabled people – showing the links between welfare policy and disabled people’s deaths.
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