benefit assessments

Benefits and Poverty

September 13, 2018 0

Hundreds of thousands more PIP claimants would challenge awards… if they could

New government research shows that hundreds of thousands more claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) would have taken further steps to challenge the results of their claims if the system had been less stressful and more accessible. The research, carried out for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by Ipsos MORI, has cast

Benefits and Poverty

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February 15, 2018 0

Benefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings

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Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit assessments, which they say highlights “serious multiple failures”, but many believe it should have done more to highlight the serious “preventable harm” caused by the system. The report by the Commons work and pensions committee concludes that there is a “pervasive culture of

Benefits and Poverty

December 21, 2017 0

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, told the county court in her written evidence that the assessor had tried

Benefits and Poverty

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May 4, 2017

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Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

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Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments, but their inquiry has had to be abandoned because of the prime minister’s decision to call a general election. Despite its inquiry into the personal independence payment (PIP) assessment process having to be scrapped,

Activism and Campaigning

May 4, 2017

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Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

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Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit assessments delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have seriously damaged their health, and how its failings will affect how they vote in next month’s general election. The discussion on the social media platform Twitter was the first major event organised by

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Hundreds of thousands more PIP claimants would challenge awards… if they could

Benefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings

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

Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’