Sickness and disability benefit assessments: Has anything changed in the last five years?
Unhealthy: Theresa May insists on employing private contractors Atos and Capita to assess benefit claimants’ fitness for work according to criteria that are not fit for purpose, and this has caused huge problems.
The video clip below resurfaced on This Writer’s Facebook page today; apparently I posted the link to it five years ago.
Has anything changed – other than the fact that Atos has been joined by Capita in carrying out the assessments?
Comments from people who have had assessments recently will be illuminating, I think.
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