DWP worst offender


The Department for Work and Pensions, which is responsible for helping disabled people back into work, has lost more disability discrimination claims than any other employer. 


Between 2016 and 2019, the DWP lost 17 of 134 claims of discrimination against its own disabled workers and paid out more than £950,000 in compensation.


This amounts to 12.5%, compared with 3% of the total number of disability discrimination claims brought against employers in the UK.


The figures were obtained by the BBC in a Freedom of Information request and revealed on its Panorama current affairs programme.