DWP’s efforts to avoid taking meaningful steps to improve the safety of the WCA – by ensuring that all the necessary evidence was gathered before a decision on a claim for out-of-work disability benefits was taken – stretched of course all the way back to April 2010. Rakesh Singh, a ...
He said similar figures for Maximus suggested a “significant number” of claimants will have been refused benefits because of flawed reports, which again “may go some way to explaining the high appeal success rates” for ESA and the disability-related part of universal credit. Slat...
DNS reports this week how a disabled man had his benefits slashed after an Atos nurse lied about what he told her during an assessment about his pain and suicidal thoughts, and repeatedly under-stated how his health conditions affected his day-to-day life, in the latest example of ...
“We have to ensure that both reserved and devolved benefits policy-makers not only stop punishing disabled people but instead secure their rights to an adequate income. “I can’t recommend it more highly.” The idea for the crowdfunder came from John McArdle, co-fo...