Disabled activist tells MPs: DWP harms and kills disabled people at unprecedented scale
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Summary
Disabled activist Rick Burgess testified before the Commons work and pensions committee that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing harm and death to disabled people at a scale that surpasses other major British scandals in recent decades. The testimony highlighted that disabled people unable to secure support from overstretched welfare rights organizations are at particular risk. Burgess's activism previously contributed to 2015 research by Liverpool and Oxford universities linking DWP policies to harm against disabled individuals.
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Those at particular risk of harm were disabled people who have been unable to secure support from over-stretched welfare rights organisations.
Burgess was one of the disabled people whose activism led to groundbreaking research in 2015 by academics from Liverpool and Oxford universities that linked DWP's welfare policies to harm against disabled individuals.
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