Weaponising time in the war on welfare

Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11432115
AutoresChina Mills (0000-0003-0615-234X, City, University of London, autor de correspondencia), John Pring (0000-0001-9718-8641, Disability News Service, UK)
Año2024
Volumen44
Número1
Páginas129-149
Fecha de publicación2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02610183231187588
OpenAlexW4385286773
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas27

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

Accountability · Battle · Economic Justice · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Public relations · Social security · Timeline · Welfare · Welfare system · Work (physics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration