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Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints

By John Pring on 27th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints
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The nursing regulator has finally clarified how many disabled people have lodged complaints about nurses who have carried out disability benefit assessments for government contractors. The figure produced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is its third attempt to produce […]

PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among Atos and Capita assessors

By John Pring on 6th April 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among Atos and Capita assessors
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The former civil servant commissioned by the government to review its new disability benefit has refused to accept there is any dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out assessments, despite being shown significant evidence of wrongdoing. Disability News Service (DNS) […]

PIP investigation: MPs expand search for evidence, but again sidestep dishonesty claims

By John Pring on 23rd March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: MPs expand search for evidence, but again sidestep dishonesty claims
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A committee of MPs is seeking fresh evidence about a disability benefit assessment process, but again appears to be trying to dodge concerns about dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out the tests. Disability News Service (DNS) has provided the […]

PIP investigation: Nursing regulator faces questions over assessment complaints

By John Pring on 16th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Nursing regulator faces questions over assessment complaints
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The nursing regulator is facing questions over why it has been unable to clarify how many disabled people have lodged complaints about nurses who have carried out disability benefit assessments for government contractors. Disability News Service (DNS) has been trying since […]

PIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors

By John Pring on 9th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors
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A group of nine disabled people with the same rare neurological condition have written to MPs to warn of “systemic malpractice” by healthcare professionals who carry out benefit assessments and then write “fraudulent reports” for the government. The nine who signed […]

PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls
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There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the way the government assesses eligibility for a key disability benefit, after claimants with mental health conditions described how they had been asked in assessments why they had not taken their own lives. […]

PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws

By John Pring on 2nd March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws
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A disabled woman is seeking a judicial review by the high court of the errors she says were made in dealing with her claim for personal independence payment (PIP), and which she believes put her life at risk. Angela Kennedy, from […]

PIP investigation: Capita made me a scapegoat, says disgraced assessor

By John Pring on 23rd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Capita made me a scapegoat, says disgraced assessor
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Healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefits assessments for the government complete as much as 60 per cent of their reports before they meet the disabled person they are supposed to be assessing, according to a disgraced former assessor. Paramedic Alan […]

PIP claimant who took her own life had written about unfair assessment report

By John Pring on 23rd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP claimant who took her own life had written about unfair assessment report
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A disabled woman who took her own life after being told she had lost a benefits appeal had written a letter to civil servants describing the unfairness of the face-to-face assessment that had led to her losing her support. The Department […]

PIP investigation: Woman took her own life two days after learning of failed PIP appeal

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP investigation: Woman took her own life two days after learning of failed PIP appeal
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A disabled woman who lost her disability benefits because of a controversial reassessment process took her own life just two days after being told her appeal had failed. The body of Susan Margaret Roberts (pictured) was discovered by a care worker […]

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