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Benefits and Poverty

Atos claims of widespread ‘assault’ were ‘lies’, government reveals

By John Pring on 28th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Crime, News Archive

Atos claims of widespread ‘assault’ were ‘lies’, government reveals
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Claims by Atos Healthcare that it was pulling out of the government’s “fitness for work” contract because of assaults on its staff by disabled benefit claimants appear to have been exposed as lies. The revelation by Disability News Service comes as […]

Doctors’ union is ‘complicit’ in continuing ‘fitness for work’ deaths

By John Pring on 28th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Doctors’ union is ‘complicit’ in continuing ‘fitness for work’ deaths
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Disabled activists have accused the doctors’ union of being “complicit” in deaths connected to the work capability assessment (WCA), after a report concluded that a Scottish woman probably killed herself as a result of being found “fit for work”. The Mental […]

Woman killed herself after being stripped of disability benefit, says watchdog

By John Pring on 28th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Woman killed herself after being stripped of disability benefit, says watchdog
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A disabled woman almost certainly killed herself because she had been found “fit for work” and stripped of out-of-work disability benefits, according to a mental health watchdog. The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland concluded that the work capability assessment (WCA) process […]

Osborne’s new social security spending cap ‘will increase disability poverty’

By John Pring on 28th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Osborne’s new social security spending cap ‘will increase disability poverty’
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A controversial budget measure is set to increase even further the number of disabled people living in poverty. The Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, announced last week that a new cap on social security spending would be set at £119.5 billion in […]

Life in the PIP queue: Claimant left chasing shadows after ‘ghost’ assessment

By John Pring on 28th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Life in the PIP queue: Claimant left chasing shadows after ‘ghost’ assessment
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A disabled man waited months for the result of his assessment for the government’s new disability benefit, only to discover that the woman who had assessed him had quit her job without ever filing her report. Stanley Kaye’s case was lost […]

‘Liars!’ MPs use DNS investigation to accuse Atos over PIP contract

By John Pring on 21st March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

‘Liars!’ MPs use DNS investigation to accuse Atos over PIP contract
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MPs have used evidence provided by Disability News Service (DNS) to accuse the outsourcing giant Atos of lying in the document it used to win a £184 million disability assessment contract. Members of the Commons public accounts committee were quizzing senior […]

Life in the PIP queue: DWP, Atos and Capita shamed over new cases

By John Pring on 21st March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Life in the PIP queue: DWP, Atos and Capita shamed over new cases
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MPs and charities have publicly shamed the government, and two of its contractors, over the botched implementation of the coalition’s new disability benefit, and its impact on disabled people. Representatives from three charities – DABD (UK), Citizens Advice and Mencap – […]

Budget: Social security cap will be ‘disastrous’

By John Pring on 21st March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Budget: Social security cap will be ‘disastrous’
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Government plans to cap the annual amount spent on social security – including key disability benefits – have been criticised by disabled campaigners. The Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, announced in this week’s budget that the spending cap would be set at […]

Urgent action needed on PIP, say MPs

By John Pring on 21st March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Urgent action needed on PIP, say MPs
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must act urgently to deal with the “dire situation” and “unacceptable” delays facing claimants of the government’s new disability benefit, according to a committee of MPs. The work and pensions select committee said in […]

Atos and Capita could soon become part of ‘shadow state’, warn MPs

By John Pring on 14th March 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Atos and Capita could soon become part of ‘shadow state’, warn MPs
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The government must improve the way it contracts out services such as disability benefits assessments to the private sector, according to an influential committee of MPs. The public accounts committee said that an absence of competition for companies such as Atos […]

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