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New evidence proves that the controversial outsourcing contractor Atos should be stripped of all of its disability benefit assessment contracts, say disabled campaigners. Fresh concerns about the behaviour of Atos and its assessors emerged after Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last […]
Fresh concerns have been raised about recruitment at one of the outsourcing companies delivering assessments for the government’s new disability benefit, after it sent out a “very urgent” request for 90 more staff. Only two months ago, Disability News Service (DNS) […]
A nurse working for the controversial outsourcing company Atos Healthcare repeatedly lied about a disabled man he was assessing for the government’s new disability benefit it has been claimed. The Atos assessor stated in his report that claimant Colin Stupples-Whyley had […]
A disabled woman has lost the car she relied on to attend vital hospital appointments after the government decided she no longer needed higher level mobility support without bothering to carry out a face-to-face assessment of her needs. Jo Jones (pictured), […]
The proportion of disabled people stuck in the queue to be assessed for the government’s new disability benefit is more than five times higher in parts of the country managed by Atos Healthcare, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. Department for […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked new concerns after releasing “bizarre” figures that suggest ministers plan to cut the number of people eligible for out-of-work disability benefits by a third in 2017-18. The statistics were provided by employment […]
Government proposals that some groups of disabled people should have their benefits cut if they refuse treatment have been branded “ethically unacceptable” and “sheer bullying”. The Conservative pledge to carry out a review into the proposals was treated with shock and […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told by the information watchdog that it does not need to release secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. Campaigners have expressed frustration and disappointment at the […]
A government consultation on plans to tighten eligibility for its new disability benefit was unfair and unlawful, the court of appeal heard this week. Last year disabled campaigner and blogger Steve Sumpter failed in a judicial review of whether the government […]
Disabled people and their organisations have branded this week’s budget misguided and cruel, and say it will drag many more disabled people into poverty. Their chief target was the chancellor’s decision to remove – from April 2017 – the extra financial […]