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Deaf News: DWP to improve services for deaf customers in new legal agreement

August 20, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to better its support for deaf customers using video relay, it has […]

Deaf News: Charity Sense expresses deep concern over documentary revealing behaviour of PIP assessors

April 12, 2016 by Editor

The charity Sense, which represents Deafblind people, has responded to the Channel 4 programme Dispatches that aired last night, investigating the planned […]

Ian Noon: Who at DWP thought it was OK to propose that deaf people could only make a claim by telephone?

July 19, 2013 by Editor

A minor little campaign victory achieved at NDCS the other week: the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) accepted that deaf people […]

Ian Noon: Many deaf people are set to lose their Disability Living Allowance

December 18, 2012 by Editor

Well, it’s official. The Government thinks that deafness is just a ‘minor’ disability. A piffling little thing of no consequence […]