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Taxpayers ‘left to foot bill for DWP’s assessment failures’ as costs set to double

By John Pring on 8th January 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Taxpayers ‘left to foot bill for DWP’s assessment failures’ as costs set to double
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Disabled people have been failed by the government’s inability to manage the assessments for disability benefits that are carried out by outsourcing giants Atos Maximus and Capita, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Meg Hillier, […]

Discredited Maximus adds care inspections to DWP portfolio

By John Pring on 18th December 2015 Category: Employment

Discredited Maximus adds care inspections to DWP portfolio
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The care watchdog has been criticised for awarding a discredited outsourcing giant new contracts to manage the use of service-users as expert advisers in care homes and hospitals. Two-thirds of the new contracts to run Experts by Experience – which pays […]

Maximus boss’s share sale is fresh embarrassment for DWP

By John Pring on 4th December 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Maximus boss’s share sale is fresh embarrassment for DWP
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A senior US executive decided to offload millions of dollars-worth of stock in his own company, just two weeks after it began delivering the controversial UK government contract to assess disabled people’s fitness for work. Maximus took over the £595 million […]

Maximus US shares plunge over missed WCA targets in UK

By John Pring on 20th November 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Maximus US shares plunge over missed WCA targets in UK
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A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) contractor saw its share price plunge in the US after revealing that it has struggled to recruit doctors and nurses from the NHS to assess disabled people’s “fitness for work”. Maximus took over the […]

Disabled man died of heart attack after being told of ESA sanction threat

By John Pring on 13th November 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled man died of heart attack after being told of ESA sanction threat
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A disabled man died of a heart attack, just an hour after being told that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop paying his out-of-work disability benefits. Alan McArdle (pictured), who had previously been homeless but was […]

Disability Rights UK wins contract to teach equality to Maximus

By John Pring on 2nd October 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability Rights UK wins contract to teach equality to Maximus
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A national disabled people’s organisation is to provide disability equality training workshops to staff from the controversial US-owned company that won the government contract to assess people’s “fitness for work”. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) will provide training to about 1 […]

Coroner’s ‘ground-breaking’ verdict: Suicide was ‘triggered’ by ‘fit for work’ test

By John Pring on 18th September 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Coroner’s ‘ground-breaking’ verdict: Suicide was ‘triggered’ by ‘fit for work’ test
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A coroner has demanded that the government takes action to prevent future deaths of disability benefit claimants, after concluding in a “ground-breaking” inquest verdict that a disabled man killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”. It […]

New ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘discriminates against disabled staff’

By John Pring on 28th August 2015 Category: Employment

New ‘fitness for work’ firm ‘discriminates against disabled staff’
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The controversial US outsourcing giant brought in to deliver “fitness for work” tests for the government is facing allegations that it discriminates against disabled staff, and has sacked hundreds of nurses shortly after tempting them to leave the NHS. Maximus only […]

Labour’s Flint sparks concerns over lobbying donation firm’s Maximus links

By John Pring on 7th August 2015 Category: Politics

Labour’s Flint sparks concerns over lobbying donation firm’s Maximus links
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A contender to be Labour’s next deputy leader – a former welfare reform minister – has been forced to defend her decision to accept donations from a lobbying firm used by the controversial company that tests disabled people’s “fitness for work”. […]

‘Bizarre’ figures raise fears over ministers’ plans for ESA

By John Pring on 31st July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Bizarre’ figures raise fears over ministers’ plans for ESA
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked new concerns after releasing “bizarre” figures that suggest ministers plan to cut the number of people eligible for out-of-work disability benefits by a third in 2017-18. The statistics were provided by employment […]

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