Response to benefit assessment inquiry breaks Commons records
An inquiry into the government’s flawed disability benefit assessment regime has produced more online evidence…
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Advisor says 30 local claimants with terminal cancer had PIP rejections overturned
A welfare rights advisor has described how at least 30 local benefit claimants with terminal…
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…
Labour conference: Benefit assessment nurses must be held to account, says Abrahams
Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has called for nurses and other healthcare professionals who…
Disgraced PIP assessor escapes being struck off
A disgraced former disability assessor and paramedic has avoided being struck off, despite a tribunal…
Council’s review finds PIP ‘not fit for purpose’
The assessment process for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP) disability benefit is “distressing,…
Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies
A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty…
PIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act
The government and its private sector contractors are refusing to investigate claims of widespread dishonesty…
Woman left in her own urine has benefits slashed after ‘dishonest’ assessment report
A disabled woman left to sit in her own urine for two hours by a…
Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims
Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who…