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Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Round-up: Atos, Capita and Maximus, face coverings, care charging… and disability arts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the contracts of three discredited outsourcing giants blamed for much of the discrimination and failings within the disability benefit assessment system.  DWP had been planning to start a contract procurement exercise for […]

Benefit assessment companies ‘have made almost no progress’ on safeguarding

By John Pring on 26th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit assessment companies ‘have made almost no progress’ on safeguarding
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The three companies that carry out disability benefit assessments for the government have made almost no progress in the last year on alerting local authorities to concerns about claimants whose safety is at risk, according to a disabled campaigner. Last year, […]

Discredited firms poised to rake in more than £1 billion from new PIP contracts

By John Pring on 12th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Discredited firms poised to rake in more than £1 billion from new PIP contracts
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Ministers are poised to hand more than a billion pounds to discredited private sector outsourcing giants so they can continue to provide disability benefit assessments for another three years. The plans will apparently see a huge rise in spending on the […]

DWP adds to confusion over ‘single assessment’ plans

By John Pring on 5th March 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP adds to confusion over ‘single assessment’ plans
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has caused confusion after refusing to say if a newly-announced trial will test the idea of merging assessments for its two main disability benefits. Justin Tomlinson (pictured), the minister for disabled people, announced this […]

Remploy loses inspection contracts after years of concerns over performance

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Independent Living

Remploy loses inspection contracts after years of concerns over performance
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A discredited US company that earns hundreds of millions of pounds a year through benefit assessment and employment support contracts has lost the right to run large parts of a care inspection scheme, following repeated concerns about its performance. Maximus, which […]

Judge’s PIP comments suggest thousands have had claims wrongly stopped

By John Pring on 23rd January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judge’s PIP comments suggest thousands have had claims wrongly stopped
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Thousands of disabled people could have had their benefit claims stopped unlawfully, campaigners believe, after a judge found that letters sent out by government contractors were failing to stress the serious consequences of failing to attend a face-to-face assessment. Upper tribunal […]

Equality watchdog ‘considering action’ on benefits discrimination

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

Equality watchdog ‘considering action’ on benefits discrimination
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The equality watchdog is considering taking action to tackle discrimination in the way decisions are made in the social security system, it revealed this morning. Although the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has not provided any further details, it released […]

WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’

By John Pring on 4th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’
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Detailed evidence from disabled people has shown that disability benefit assessment reports are still riddled with distortions, twisted facts and ignorance, say grassroots campaigners. WOWCampaign launched its Assessing the Assessors campaign earlier this year to highlight the continued flaws within the […]

DWP and assessors fail to refer claimants at risk of harm to social services, research finds

By John Pring on 2nd May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP and assessors fail to refer claimants at risk of harm to social services, research finds
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its private sector contractors have been failing for years to alert local authorities to concerns about benefit claimants whose safety was at risk, “shocking” new research has shown. Years of previous research have […]

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel

By John Pring on 14th March 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP handed petition of 200,000 names on benefit assessment travel
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A disabled woman has handed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a petition of more than 200,000 names in a bid to stop companies forcing claimants to travel long distances to attend face-to-face benefit assessments. Claudette Lawrence only launched the […]

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