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Guardian article. This won't surprise anyone who's been anywhere near the UK's disability assessment scheme. Atos and Capita have raked in half a billion quid over the last few years, presumably by doing a great job of denying sick people the help they need.
Full article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/27/private-firms-500m-governments-fit-to-work-scheme
The most recommended comment below the article says it all:
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) paid Atos and Capita £507m for the “fit-to-work” tests between 2013 and 2016, despite fierce criticism of their services by MPs.
Figures up until September this year reported by the Daily Mirror suggest that 61% of the 90,000 claimants who appealed against personal independent payment (PIP) decisions surrounding their benefits by the DWP, based on these companies’ assessments, won their case at tribunal. The DWP said it was unsure where this figure came from.
Full article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/27/private-firms-500m-governments-fit-to-work-scheme
The most recommended comment below the article says it all:
This is exactly where private firms should never be used. That is £600m of taxpayers money that should be going to the people who need it; to the disabled, the terminally ill and the sick. *If* there were savings to be made, those should have gone into the NHS not trousered into the offshore accounts of these vultures.
It is a national shame and disgrace and should be laid firmly at the door of Iain Duncan Smith, Freud and the Tories. And that's not even to mention the people who have been hounded to death and suicide by these unChristian, uncivilised and despicable people.