One of the two outsourcing giants that won contracts to assess people for the government’s new disability benefit could make a fifth of its assessment staff redundant, months after recruiting them to clear a huge claims backlog. Capita has about 400 […]
Benefits and Poverty
Evidence mounts in case against government’s sanctions regime
MP to quiz ministers over Gunnyeon’s Maximus WCA role
Former WCA boss free to advise Maximus on ‘fitness for work’ test within weeks
New questions over safety of DWP’s benefit sanction rules
Bedroom tax five win permission for Supreme Court appeal
Five disabled adults have won permission to take their legal battle against the government’s “bedroom tax” to the Supreme Court. The five – including Jayson and Jacqueline Carmichael, from Southport – were seeking the hearing after a “baffling” court of appeal […]