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Benefits and Poverty

October 5, 2017 0

MPs’ inquiry set to look at PIP assessment dishonesty claims

MPs have launched an inquiry into why so many disability benefit decisions are being overturned on appeal, and look set to examine claims of widespread dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out assessments on behalf of the government. The investigation by the Commons work and pensions select committee follows a previous inquiry into

Benefits and Poverty

Debbie Abrahams and two other panellists listen to a woman speaking

September 28, 2017 0

Labour conference: Benefit assessment nurses must be held to account, says Abrahams

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Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has called for nurses and other healthcare professionals who write misleading benefit assessment reports to be “held to account”. Debbie Abrahams said there had been “too many times” when healthcare professionals had written reports that did not “marry” with the evidence they had been given by disabled benefit

Benefits and Poverty

August 17, 2017 0

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its promises not to harass a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. Last year, DWP publicly apologised – although not directly to David* – after repeatedly contacting him about his claim for personal independence payment (PIP),

Benefits and Poverty

Catherine Scarlett flops into a reclining chair, watched by her husband

August 10, 2017 0

Recordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts

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A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma attacks, accidental overdoses and repeated blackouts, in one of the clearest examples yet of a dishonest benefits assessment report, secret recordings have revealed. A video recording of the assessment also shows that the nurse lied about the way disabled activist Catherine Scarlett made her

Benefits and Poverty

Neil Coyle speaking during a committee evidence session

August 10, 2017 0

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

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A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who assess disabled people for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP). Disability News Service (DNS) has been investigating allegations that healthcare professionals working for government contractors Atos and Capita have been lying in their assessment

Benefits and Poverty

August 3, 2017 0

PIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act

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The government and its private sector contractors are refusing to investigate claims of widespread dishonesty in the benefits assessment industry, despite Disability News Service (DNS) collecting more than 200 such cases. The cases have been compiled during a DNS investigation into allegations that healthcare professionals working for outsourcing giants Capita and Atos have been

Activism and Campaigning

A protester holds up a banner saying Disabled People Against Cuts, Rights Not Charity

July 13, 2017 0

DPAC set for week of protests over social care, Atos and access to transport

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Disabled activists are set to lobby MPs this week on the urgency of the social care crisis, as part of a week of action that will take place across the country, including a protest outside the Olympic Stadium. The highlight of the week of action planned by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is likely

Benefits and Poverty

June 22, 2017 0

Woman left in her own urine has benefits slashed after ‘dishonest’ assessment report

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A disabled woman left to sit in her own urine for two hours by a physiotherapist who was assessing her benefit claim has had her benefits slashed, after the assessor wrote a report she believes is full of “lies”. Disabled people were outraged last week after Maria Lane described the “inhuman” experience she endured

Benefits and Poverty

June 15, 2017 0

Woman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor

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A disabled women says she was left to sit in her own urine for nearly two hours after her plight was ignored by a healthcare professional carrying out a disability benefit assessment. Maria Lane has spoken up about the “devastating” experience she endured during her personal independence payment (PIP) assessment, in the hope that

Benefits and Poverty

June 15, 2017 0

Rebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise

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The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of trying to create a smokescreen to hide its past failures and “appalling reputation”, after quietly announcing that it is changing the name of its disability benefit assessment arm. The company – blamed by many disabled people for repeated, serious and harmful failings in the way

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