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Old 20-10-2016, 21:23   #92
RichardCoulter
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Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP.

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
How would they make more money from the assessments?

If the problems have existed BEFORE any staff cuts, then staff cuts can't be to blame.

The changes were suggested in 2009, "Work Capability Review, October 2009". Eg Changing from walking to mobilising, therefore including wheelchair use is there.
They rush through them, enabling them to carry out more assessments in order to get more money.

There have been cases where assessments have inappropriately been done over the phone or not at all and been claimed for as face to face assessments.

One nurse was even drunk at work and another thought it appropriate to start slagging off claimants by saying they were lazy and taking their disabilities. After complaints and pressure, both were dismissed.

There are certainly staff problems and there has been ever since the days of Supplementary Benefit in the sixties.

There's an excellent book about this called 'DHSS In Crisis".
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