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DWP loses court fight over treatment of severely disabled

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Post by Guest Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:33 pm

UK government discriminated against people left worse off by universal credit, say judges.

The DWP had challenged two high court decisions protecting severely disabled benefit claimants from a drop in income.

The government has suffered a humiliating court defeat after it was found to have unlawfully discriminated against thousands of severely disabled people who were left financially worse off after moving on to universal credit.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/29/dwp-loses-court-fight-over-treatment-of-severely-disabled

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