What did we expect? Benefit assessors haven’t progressed towards improving safeguards for the vulnerable
This should make your blood boil. Yes, there’s a crisis going on involving the coronavirus pandemic. That shouldn’t mean work …
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Firms that falsified thousands of benefit assessments set to get contracts to falsify thousands more
Can anyone think of a single rational explanation for the plan to renew the contracts for Atos and Capita to …
PIP assessor terrorises household. What kind of people is Capita hiring?
This should concern anybody who has a long-term illness or disability, who has a family member with one, or may …
Why is the TV Licensing authority persecuting this pensioner?
This is another indictment against outsourcing giant Capita, which collects TV licence fees on behalf of the BBC. Capita recently …
Capita u-turns on court appeal over claimant death – opening itself to more claims?
Outsourcing giant Capita has dropped an appeal against a court decision ordering it to pay damages to the family of …
‘We’ve been wronged’ says outsourcing firm after death of claimant whose benefits were wrongly stopped
It must be great to be so rich you think you can buy justice. Take government-contract outsourcing firm Capita, that …
Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of PIP assessors
This information is worth having – not necessarily for what it says in its own right – but certainly because …
In the crap-ita: Government contractor responsible for benefit assessments is in deep financial doo-doo
Of course we shouldn’t gloat about financial troubles that will affect thousands of people’s jobs. But Capita is responsible for …
Sickness and disability benefit assessments: Has anything changed in the last five years?
The video clip below resurfaced on This Writer’s Facebook page today; apparently I posted the link to it five years ago. …
Woman with MS demands changes to PIP assessment after nine-month ordeal
Gill Willis’s experience is commonplace among those who undergo the assessment procedure for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Assessors from private …