Disabled activists have raised concerns about the human rights record of the outsourcing company that defeated Atos in the battle for a multi-million-pound disability benefits assessment contract. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week that the government decision to award Serco […]
PIP assessments
Atos ‘is left with blood on its hands’ after DWP calls time on its 20 years of assessments
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
The government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, MPs have been told by leading academics. Professor Ben Barr, from the University of Liverpool, and Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger, from the University of […]