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Activists raise concerns over human rights record of company that ousted Atos

By John Pring on 26th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Activists raise concerns over human rights record of company that ousted Atos
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Disabled activists have raised concerns about the human rights record of the outsourcing company that defeated Atos in the battle for a multi-million-pound disability benefits assessment contract. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week that the government decision to award Serco […]

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments

By John Pring on 19th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments
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Two disabled campaigners whose brothers’ deaths were closely linked to the actions of the outsourcing company Atos have welcomed the announcement that its 20 years of carrying out disability assessments for the government will end next year. From September next year, […]

DWP tried to prevent Atos winning £338m assessment contract, court documents suggest

By John Pring on 10th August 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP tried to prevent Atos winning £338m assessment contract, court documents suggest
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tried to prevent its most controversial private sector contractor winning a five-year £338 million contract to provide disability benefit assessments, court documents suggest. Most of the successful bidders for five regional contracts to provide […]

Recording shows Atos nurse lied repeatedly in PIP assessment report

By John Pring on 10th August 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Recording shows Atos nurse lied repeatedly in PIP assessment report
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A disabled man has had his benefits slashed after an Atos nurse lied about what he told her during an assessment about his pain and suicidal thoughts, and repeatedly under-stated how his health conditions affect his day-to-day life. The nurse even […]

DWP’s ‘shocking’ refusal to allow benefit appeal for woman who was sectioned

By John Pring on 15th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP’s ‘shocking’ refusal to allow benefit appeal for woman who was sectioned
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to help a disabled woman who was unable to appeal against the rejection of her disability benefit claim because she had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Dee Daniels was left “pauperised” […]

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos

By John Pring on 1st June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos
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The government has awarded five-year disability assessment contracts worth more than £560 million to the outsourcing giant Capita, on the same day that a safeguarding review linked the company to the death of a young disabled mum. Last week, the safeguarding […]

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws
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Systemic safeguarding flaws across the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been linked by its own civil servants to the deaths of multiple benefit claimants between 2018 and 2020, secret reports have revealed. Several of the 30 reports show continuing […]

Call for urgent inquiry into ‘covert surveillance’ in benefit assessments

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Call for urgent inquiry into ‘covert surveillance’ in benefit assessments
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MPs are calling for an urgent government investigation into the use of “covert surveillance” of disabled people by the private sector companies paid to assess eligibility for disability benefits. It comes in a report by the Commons work and pensions committee, […]

DWP assessment firms ‘still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports’

By John Pring on 19th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP assessment firms ‘still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports’
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Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for disability benefits are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won contracts to carry them out. An audit of assessment […]

No DWP decision on £2.8 billion assessment contracts, 21 months on

By John Pring on 5th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

No DWP decision on £2.8 billion assessment contracts, 21 months on
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has still not decided which companies will be paid a share of £2.8 billion to carry out health and disability benefit assessments, nearly two years after it first published information about the contracts. The […]

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