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Old 22-10-2016, 00:13   #97
RichardCoulter
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Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP.

Some further reading here:

http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com...r-documentary/

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
In January this year, there were 2,485,000 ESA/Disabilty Benefits claimants.

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...y-mar-2016.pdf

Even if there were 1,000 of these cases (and no one has provided any evidence to support a figure that high), that would be 1 in nearly 2,500 claimants, so statistically, they are isolated cases...
Last January, The National Audit Office stated that 36% of Capita reports were below standard.

No matter what the figures involved are, this sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable:

http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/0...ing-claimants/

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