Number of ESA benefit claimants with mental health issues rejected at assessment stage compared with those with physical ailments

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I am using FOI process to request the following information

1. What is the number of Employment Support Allowance claimants with mental health conditions, to date, who have failed the ATOS medical Assessment compared with those claimants presenting with physical health problems?

2.What is the number, to date, of complaints received by ATOS Medical Services and DWP in regard to the operation of the new medical assessment process as operated by ATOS?

3. Can you confirm that ATOS Medical Services are not given incentives of any sort by DWP, to reject potential ESA claimants

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Stephen Brisco

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Dear DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request,

"Number of ESA benefit claimants with mental heralth issues rejected at assessment stage compared with those with physical ailments"

I am writing to remind you that by by law you should have normally responded to my request,above, promptly and by 21st January 2010.

I look forward to your response.

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Stephen Brisco

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Dear DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request,

My original request for information on "Number of ESA benefit claimants with mental health issues rejected at assessment stage compared with those with physical ailments" is now long overdue, and by law you should have responded long before now. I formally request an internal review to determine why a response has not been forthcoming.

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Stephen Brisco

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Dear Mr Brisco

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Dear Mr Brisco

Please find attached a response to your DWP Freedom of Information
Request 1211-179

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Dear Mr Brisco

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Neville Topham left an annotation ()

I am a person who has Mental health problems, might I suggest to those going to appeal present as evidence details of their diagnosed condition from Diagnostics and Statistics of Mental Disorders DSM will find it via your search engine.
This is a book updated at 10 yearly intervals which is Globally recognised as the bible of the Psychiatry profession and even with the widest interpretation of English would give no credence to the descriptors used to assess the way in which ones condition as having any factual basis.
In addition I have tried without success to establish the status placed on DWP submissions, from my limited understanding of the Law this must be Material Evidence which must be proven, if they suggest that they do not treat it as that status then it is questionable if the DWP decision can be treated as having any factual basis.