STOP ATOS CUTTING DISABILITY BENEFITS.
Picket Atos Recruitment Evening
Atos Medical Assessment Centre
Corunna House
29 Cadogan Street
Glasgow G2 7AB
Monday 6th June 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Who are Atos?
Atos Healthcare are a part of a private, profit making corporation. On behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), they carry out the medical assessments, now called 'Work Capability Assessments
(WCA), for Employment Support Allowance (formerly Incapacity Benefit).
Atos SICKNESS BENEFIT ASSESSOR!!
What do they do?
Atos are currently recruiting more medical professionals to carry out new assessments on all people on sickness benefits. They are actively carrying out the Government’s plan of cutting sickness benefits by £250 billion. The process is driven by cost cutting not objective medical opinion. In recent trials of their largely unreliable new computerised medical test 29% of claimants had their benefits cut, but most people win their case when they appeal with the help of an advice centre. Atos will be also recruiting more staff to carry out these distressing and degrading tests on all people on Disability Living Allowance for the first time, where the plan is to cut the budget by 20%. The Government are cutting these benefits to reduce the debt caused by bankers gambling on the financial markets. The most vulnerable in society are being made to pay for the greed of the rich and the inevitable booms and busts of capitalist economics.
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It matters not how they change the goal posts, all claimants that have been on Incap and DLA for more than two years are protected. Unless the claimant themselves come off the benefits, no government can get them off. The cases that were awarded a"Starred" decision came about in 1997, starred meaning that a precedence had been set for future appeals tribunals hearings. So essentially they are kicked off the benefits they appeal and will win!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment "Anonymous" but it would be nice to have a name.
ReplyDeleteThe point is not whether the claimants get back on benefit or not, the point is that thousands of vulnerable people are being put through a humiliating and stressful situation unnecessarily pure as a government cash saving process while that same government hands millions of tax payers cash to big business in the process.
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