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‘Horrific’ stats show how most disability benefit fraud allegations are false

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Horrific’ stats show how most disability benefit fraud allegations are false
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A “staggering” and “horrific” proportion of allegations of disability benefit fraud that are made by the public are eventually found to be completely false, the government’s own figures have revealed. The response by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to […]

Activists combine to offer PIP assessment recording kits

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Activists combine to offer PIP assessment recording kits
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Disabled activists have responded to the government’s continuing failure to deal with the dishonesty and inaccuracy of the disability benefit assessment process by launching schemes to ensure that claimants can record their own assessments. Grassroots groups of disabled activists launched two […]

New figures raise fresh questions over Atos PIP assessments

By John Pring on 22nd August 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New figures raise fresh questions over Atos PIP assessments
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The amount of time that nurses and physiotherapists spend carrying out face-to-face disability benefit assessments can vary hugely, depending on where the test takes place, according to analysis of new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures. Although the figures do […]

Proportion of flawed Atos PIP assessment reports has soared in last two years

By John Pring on 8th August 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Proportion of flawed Atos PIP assessment reports has soared in last two years
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The proportion of disability assessment reports completed by government contractor Atos that were found to be significantly flawed has soared by more than 40 per cent in the last two years. The percentage of substandard Atos* personal independence payment (PIP) reports […]

DWP confirms single assessment plans, despite Tomlinson confusion

By John Pring on 9th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP confirms single assessment plans, despite Tomlinson confusion
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The government has confirmed that it is pushing ahead with plans to test how it might be able to merge two disability benefit assessments into one, despite comments from a minister that appeared to suggest that no such plans were being […]

Atos threatens to call police after claimant questions PIP assessor’s mental health training

By John Pring on 1st November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Atos threatens to call police after claimant questions PIP assessor’s mental health training
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Staff working for a discredited benefit assessments contractor threatened to call the police after a claimant asked about the mental health qualifications of the nurse who was assessing his eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP). Atos has now launched an investigation […]

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

By John Pring on 13th September 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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

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

By John Pring on 15th February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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, […]

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

By John Pring on 4th May 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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