>A committee of MPs has said it will use its parliamentary powers to release a report that the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned on disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system, but has repeatedly refused to publish.
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>After several unsuccessful attempts to obtain the report from DWP, the Work and Pensions Select Committee has written to the research institute that carried out the work to demand a copy, which it will then publish itself.
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>Work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey has repeatedly refused to make the research public.
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>Stephen Timms, chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “After repeated obstruction from the secretary of state to keep from public view a piece of work that falls within the government’s own protocol for publication, we have reached the end of the road.
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>“We would have much rather the DWP had done the right thing and published the report itself, so it is with regret that we must now take the highly unusual step of using our parliamentary powers to obtain a copy from NatCen and publish it ourselves.
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>“We have been forced to do this to ensure that the reality of disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system can see the light of day.”
I expect this report to show how incompetent, bully and unfit for purpose this government and its current benefits system is.
I bet its really bad. I bet it shows thousands have died because of the DWP callousness
The CAB got gagged to stop talking about the problems. Things haven’t gotten better. UC was roughly £5Bn over budget before it paid its first client and it has again had a delay for full roll-out costing millions more. It has been a total failure unless the system was designed to punish. Considering IDS quoted Auschwitz Concentration Camp slogan on National TV when talking about UC for the disabled, it is hard to not believe this suffering was very intended.
The government have received condemnation by the UN for its treatment of the disabled through a harsh benefits system. If that does not give some indication as to how fit for purpose the benefits system is then what will? Calling them ‘benefits’ is laughable when it is a system designed to punish people and make it hard for them to get just enough money to survive, let alone live.
It’s only getting worse.
Instead of the changes they promised in that those with incurable conditions will not uld no longer be subjected to regular assessment they have instead gone the other way and are introducing year assessments.
Now for those who have never experienced an assessment I can you from personal experience that they are humiliating and and insanely stressful.
How stressful, well I have undergone a emergency splenectomy, been tested for cancer not once, not twice, but three times in the 5 years, under several colonoscopies, endoscopy, had bone marrow taken several times and had a lumbar puncture and none of them have even close to the stress I was under during a PIP assessment.
Just arriving to the assessment can be and most likely be used against you.
Stratched your nose, your fucked. Put together a coherent sentence, your fuck.
Every little movement you make, every word you say will be used against.
I’ve been through it process and from start to finish it took 18 months. It was resolved in court in under 10 minutes.
Had I not had my family and friends support me both emotionally and financially I would never of lasted the 18 months which is the ultimate aim of the entire Process.
Its is designed this way in order to put people off applying in the first place and not to contest their bullshit results because people just put themselves through the process due to the stress it causes them.
I’ve met people who have been made suicidal by the entire PIP process.
I know people who have MS, confined to a wheelchair, have a permanent catheter fitted and require nurses visiting them twice a day to help with their personal needs who still at ebeimg made to attend assessments.
I met somebody who had her entire leg amputated and they deny her any mobility..
Yes you read that right, she had her entire leg amputated after a horrific crash accident and apparently according to the DWP she had no mobility issues…
Of course the court instantly found on favour of her and awarded full disability and mobility but the fact the bastards made her suffer all that time just shows what utter heartless cunts they are.
I can’t put into words how much I hate the DWP and all those who work for them, especially the assessors.
> Work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey has repeatedly refused to make the research public.
Which clearly indicates what the results of the research show as if it showed anything good for the general public it would have been published with massive fanfare.
It obviously shows that the benefits system is institutionally cruel and specifically designed to be this way.
> The government have received condemnation by the UN for its treatment of the disabled through a harsh benefits system
Really says it all and yet another reason for Brexit to stop these pesky foreigners pointing out the Tories deliberate cruelty to the disabled
Yes I’m disabled and so constantly fucked off with it all
They have a policy of advertising the rare benefits cheats on media to push a narrative that it’s a real problem. Spend more money on investigations than on social care. Deny most requests, which need to be pushed to a 2nd level review then accepted because they should have been accepted the first time. They do that to put people off, who have disabilities, anxiety and other mental health issues and to make the process as hard and embarrassing as possible. Lots have people have died because of this.
Nice people, yay the Torie wet dream that is the current DWP.
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>A committee of MPs has said it will use its parliamentary powers to release a report that the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned on disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system, but has repeatedly refused to publish.
>
>After several unsuccessful attempts to obtain the report from DWP, the Work and Pensions Select Committee has written to the research institute that carried out the work to demand a copy, which it will then publish itself.
>
>Work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey has repeatedly refused to make the research public.
>
>Stephen Timms, chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “After repeated obstruction from the secretary of state to keep from public view a piece of work that falls within the government’s own protocol for publication, we have reached the end of the road.
>
>“We would have much rather the DWP had done the right thing and published the report itself, so it is with regret that we must now take the highly unusual step of using our parliamentary powers to obtain a copy from NatCen and publish it ourselves.
>
>“We have been forced to do this to ensure that the reality of disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system can see the light of day.”
I expect this report to show how incompetent, bully and unfit for purpose this government and its current benefits system is.
I bet its really bad. I bet it shows thousands have died because of the DWP callousness
The CAB got gagged to stop talking about the problems. Things haven’t gotten better. UC was roughly £5Bn over budget before it paid its first client and it has again had a delay for full roll-out costing millions more. It has been a total failure unless the system was designed to punish. Considering IDS quoted Auschwitz Concentration Camp slogan on National TV when talking about UC for the disabled, it is hard to not believe this suffering was very intended.
The government have received condemnation by the UN for its treatment of the disabled through a harsh benefits system. If that does not give some indication as to how fit for purpose the benefits system is then what will? Calling them ‘benefits’ is laughable when it is a system designed to punish people and make it hard for them to get just enough money to survive, let alone live.
It’s only getting worse.
Instead of the changes they promised in that those with incurable conditions will not uld no longer be subjected to regular assessment they have instead gone the other way and are introducing year assessments.
Now for those who have never experienced an assessment I can you from personal experience that they are humiliating and and insanely stressful.
How stressful, well I have undergone a emergency splenectomy, been tested for cancer not once, not twice, but three times in the 5 years, under several colonoscopies, endoscopy, had bone marrow taken several times and had a lumbar puncture and none of them have even close to the stress I was under during a PIP assessment.
Just arriving to the assessment can be and most likely be used against you.
Stratched your nose, your fucked. Put together a coherent sentence, your fuck.
Every little movement you make, every word you say will be used against.
I’ve been through it process and from start to finish it took 18 months. It was resolved in court in under 10 minutes.
Had I not had my family and friends support me both emotionally and financially I would never of lasted the 18 months which is the ultimate aim of the entire Process.
Its is designed this way in order to put people off applying in the first place and not to contest their bullshit results because people just put themselves through the process due to the stress it causes them.
I’ve met people who have been made suicidal by the entire PIP process.
I know people who have MS, confined to a wheelchair, have a permanent catheter fitted and require nurses visiting them twice a day to help with their personal needs who still at ebeimg made to attend assessments.
I met somebody who had her entire leg amputated and they deny her any mobility..
Yes you read that right, she had her entire leg amputated after a horrific crash accident and apparently according to the DWP she had no mobility issues…
Of course the court instantly found on favour of her and awarded full disability and mobility but the fact the bastards made her suffer all that time just shows what utter heartless cunts they are.
I can’t put into words how much I hate the DWP and all those who work for them, especially the assessors.
> Work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey has repeatedly refused to make the research public.
Which clearly indicates what the results of the research show as if it showed anything good for the general public it would have been published with massive fanfare.
It obviously shows that the benefits system is institutionally cruel and specifically designed to be this way.
> The government have received condemnation by the UN for its treatment of the disabled through a harsh benefits system
Really says it all and yet another reason for Brexit to stop these pesky foreigners pointing out the Tories deliberate cruelty to the disabled
Yes I’m disabled and so constantly fucked off with it all
They have a policy of advertising the rare benefits cheats on media to push a narrative that it’s a real problem. Spend more money on investigations than on social care. Deny most requests, which need to be pushed to a 2nd level review then accepted because they should have been accepted the first time. They do that to put people off, who have disabilities, anxiety and other mental health issues and to make the process as hard and embarrassing as possible. Lots have people have died because of this.
Nice people, yay the Torie wet dream that is the current DWP.