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The PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal

By John Pring on 8th February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

The PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal
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Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports completed by a private sector contractor were significantly flawed, confidential Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) documents suggest. The figures were revealed through a government audit of personal independence payment (PIP) […]

Watchdog orders DWP to publish secret reports on Atos and Capita PIP failings

By John Pring on 18th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Watchdog orders DWP to publish secret reports on Atos and Capita PIP failings
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The information commissioner has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release documents that are likely to expose the widespread failings of two of its disability benefit assessment contractors. DWP has been attempting to prevent the documents being released […]

Atos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures

By John Pring on 4th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures
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A nurse carrying out a disability benefit assessment fired questions at a disabled man’s wife while her husband was in the middle of a severe and prolonged series of epileptic seizures just a few feet away. Daniel Marshall, from Dorset, had […]

More than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal

By John Pring on 4th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

More than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal
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More than one in eight of all decisions to reject claims for personal independence payment (PIP) are eventually being overturned, new figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The figures* show that, of all the PIP claims rejected by […]

Court orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment

By John Pring on 21st December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Court orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment
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A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be awarded £5,000 compensation by the government contractor Atos, after a dishonest report by one of its assessors led to her being awarded the wrong level of benefits. Vanessa Haley, from Huddersfield, […]

PIP assessment companies admit ‘unacceptable’ failings on quality of reports

By John Pring on 7th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP assessment companies admit ‘unacceptable’ failings on quality of reports
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The two outsourcing companies paid hundreds of millions of pounds to carry out disability benefit assessments have never met contractual quality standards on the reports their staff write for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), they have told MPs. Capita […]

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

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

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

Response to benefit assessment inquiry breaks Commons records

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

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 […]

MPs’ inquiry set to look at PIP assessment dishonesty claims

By John Pring on 5th October 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 28th September 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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