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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

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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

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Undercover footage shows Barham at a desk, with the following words at the bottom of the screen: 'The money? It was ridiculous. I was getting around twenty grand a month most months.'

September 21, 2017 0

Disgraced PIP assessor escapes being struck off

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A disgraced former disability assessor and paramedic has avoided being struck off, despite a tribunal concluding that he made offensive remarks about disabled benefit claimants. Alan Barham was sacked by the government outsourcing giant Capita last year after being exposed by an undercover reporter working for Channel 4’s Dispatches. He later contacted Disability News

Benefits and Poverty

September 14, 2017 0

Council’s review finds PIP ‘not fit for purpose’

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The assessment process for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP) disability benefit is “distressing, inconsistent and not fit for purpose”, according to the results of an inquiry by a panel of local councillors. The review took evidence in person from seven disabled PIP claimants, and heard in writing from three more. They told

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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

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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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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,

Benefits and Poverty

April 27, 2017

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Nursing regulator finally clarifies stats on benefit assessment complaints

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The nursing regulator has finally clarified how many disabled people have lodged complaints about nurses who have carried out disability benefit assessments for government contractors. The figure produced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is its third attempt to produce accurate statistics on how many complaints it has received about the conduct of

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April 6, 2017

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PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among Atos and Capita assessors

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The former civil servant commissioned by the government to review its new disability benefit has refused to accept there is any dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out assessments, despite being shown significant evidence of wrongdoing. Disability News Service (DNS) has twice contacted Paul Gray’s personal independence payment (PIP) review team with evidence

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