This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 16)
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This person's 16 annotations
Regarding question 4:
The DWP publishes the Benefit Overpayment Recovery Guide (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-overpayment-recove...
This request has been refused because the DWP:
- extended the time limit on a request where it did not meet the requirements to extend the time limit...
"Our oldest PIP New Claim application is dated 29/12/2020"
Over two and a half years. Outrageous.
The ICO has now accepted the case for investigation under reference IC-248186-K2J6. Note that this is a new case reference.
The query you've made isn't one that's really suitable for an FOI request, that's why their reply is somewhat vague and just points you towards the gui...
In this instance, I think it's reasonable to assert that not holding the information is effective confirmation that there are no circumstances in which...
Any guidance, policy or other document which refers to Universal Jobmatch is extremely outdated.
If you have been given a claimant commitment which r...
The linked Benefits Document and Data Retention Guide was unveiled as a result of a 2013 request for the policy - it had been updated less than a month...
I don't think it's necessarily ridiculous to suggest that the requests might (collectively) exceed the cost limit - the time taken to go through the vi...
I should note on this request:
The DWP's public policies do not appear to allow discretion, and internal policies (some of which have been uncovered...
The bit of the Civil Service Code that they quote is damning, but especially "You must not [...] use official resources for party political purposes"....
On the 31st of May 2023, the DWP stated that "we do not have colleagues holding the role of Decision Maker working within the PIP
process". This is en...
Regarding question 3, I previously requested the same data in 2019 (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complaint_response_times_2), and the data fo...
It's worth noting that there is no legal obligation to obtain consent before recording a call on a personal device (although there might be an obligati...
The information is already available. You can find an up-to-date list at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serve-the-treasury-solicitor-with-l...
I'd try again one more time - it's over a year since the meeting in question now, so raise the point that it's significantly less likely to be "prematu...