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The Million Pound Disability Payout

Panorama investigates why the DWP has lost so many employment tribunals for disability discrimination.

The Department for Work and Pensions is meant to help disabled people get back into work. In this programme, reporter Richard Butchins discovers that it has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other employer in Britain. He investigates why the DWP has paid its own employees nearly a million pounds of public money in both tribunal pay-outs and out-of-court settlements.

29 minutes

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Role Contributor
Reporter Richard Butchins
Producer Charlie Mole
Executive Producer Lucie Kon
Executive Producer Tom Randall
Editor Rachel Jupp

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