Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
A grassroots group has warned MPs that the “terrifying insecurity” caused by the government’s regime of disability benefit assessments is driving disabled women to destitution, and even “hastening their deaths”.
WinVisible has submitted evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee about the impact of the assessments on some of the many disabled women they have supported with their employment and support allowance (ESA) and personal independence payment (PIP) claims.
The campaigning organisation, which is based in north London and provides information, advocacy and support to disabled women, says the ESA and PIP assessment regimes are causing “a terrifying insecurity” among disabled women, and leading to “suicides or admissions to NHS psychiatric institutions”.
Benefit cuts imposed by the government and implemented by assessors from contractors Maximus, Capita and Atos cause “enormous suffering, destitution and [are]hastening deaths of sick and disabled people”, says WinVisible.
The evidence has been submitted as part of the committee’s inquiry into the PIP and ESA assessment regimes.
Source: Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
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