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Benefits and Poverty

The four welfare rights expert giving evidence to the work and pensions committee

November 23, 2017 0

Benefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf of the government should be held accountable for failing to report what they are told accurately, MPs have been told. Members of the Commons work and pensions select committee were told repeatedly this week that assessors working for the outsourcing giants Atos, Capita

Benefits and Poverty

A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

November 16, 2017 0

Response to benefit assessment inquiry breaks Commons records

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An inquiry into the government’s flawed disability benefit assessment regime has produced more online evidence from the public than any other investigation ever held by a House of Commons select committee. More than 2,800 submissions had been made to the work and pensions committee through its online forum by the time the deadline passed,

Benefits and Poverty

October 5, 2017 0

MPs’ inquiry set to look at PIP assessment dishonesty claims

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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

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