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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Indeed. Too many independent tribunals are coming to the wrong decision as far as this Government is concerned.
As a result they want to scrap personal tribunals (where appellants generally do better) and remove the disability specialist.
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H'mm. If the
independent tribunals keep coming to the wrong conclusion, maybe we should be insisting on referring these to the ECJ.
Not.
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Originally Posted by Taf
A FB forum is full of people who were already on PIP at the higher levels being dropped to zero points by ATOS-Capita-DWP. Some fully win at tribunal, many don't. It's a lottery loaded against claimants, with rules being changed by the DWP to ensure more failures.
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I don't know whether this is the lottery some claim, or whether people are just annoyed that their benefits are being terminated.
The problem is, that there are so many people abusing the system. The issue is how to get the balance right.
I would not wish any genuine claimant to lose out, but we do need to stop paying out taxpayer's money to those who are claiming under false pretences.