Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) agreed in October to trial handing out warnings instead of […]
Benefits and Poverty
The PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations
Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to punish nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists who write dishonest benefit assessment reports. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) is looking at concerns about the way regulators deal with complaints about nurses, physiotherapists […]
The PIP Files: DWP documents show ‘absolutely shocking’ failure on further evidence
The PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors
Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue carrying out disability benefit assessments despite being the subject of multiple complaints about their behaviour, competence and honesty, confidential new documents have revealed. The official reports, prepared by outsourcing giants Capita […]