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This is an excellent example to highlight the approach that the DWP adopts to most things legal.
Many things that the DWP imposes on claimants are pr...
Congratulations John, you finally got them!
It is interesting to note that suddenly everyone is the Minister when you asked about the decision being...
Given the recent leak of JCP league tables regarding sanctioning claimants I have to wonder if the same exists for DM dealing with disability benefit c...
Yet another classic example of the DWP not recording information that could embarrass it! Of course any organisation that was fit for purpose would rec...
If a definition for 'declined' is not provided then the DM will use the normal everyday meaning. I believe that this means the DM will take it to mean...
Alison,
It might be sensible to get a note from your Doctor to state that you are too ill to attend the WCA. That puts them in a difficult position.
Alison,
The DWP will no doubt tell you that a WCA can only be delayed once for up to 4 weeks for any reason. It will make it sound like this is the La...
With the intervention of the ICO the DWP now admits that the legal opinion it holds in relation to recording WCA is over 3 years old.
It also confirm...
It is interesting that the response mentions the BNF as it isn't listed as one of the available external links for LiMA. I can only assume that it mean...
Hi
Soldiers will not get involved in anything like this. If they get found out the MoD and the Military will make their lives hell.
I suggest making...
I think the DWP follows the usual public sector protocol for statistics associated with policy. Make them up to provide the answer that the Minister wa...
Given there is very compelling evidence from a number of people that used to work as HCP for Atos that this sort of thing goes on regularly during ‘rev...
You are welcome. You might want to look up 'Subject Access Requests'(SAR) as these are the formal way of requesting data that organisations hold about...
I agree. However, the DWP refuses to release the software files for LiMA and sadly the ICO keeps finding in their favour.
Unfortunately the DWP won't give you what you want via the FOIA. You will have to use the Data Protection Act. If the DWP or Atos has already refused t...
Some interesting documents here. The request for media support where Atos want to change £1,093 per day per person is astonishing!
Given the impending change to mandatory reconsideration I am intrigued to see what excuses the DWP come up with. I will be surprised if the DWP collec...
The DWP appears to rely on the Secretary of State’s (SoS) common law rights for many of things it does but presents them as Law to us. The UT has warne...
I agree. The problem for the DWP is that it intends to not pay ESA while the reconsideration process is underway. Unless the claimant knows what the pr...
I suspect that when the file is returned to the DWP the claimant will be asked to justify why they failed to attend and be put at risk of their benefit...
Yet another example of the DWP not actually answering what it was asked. We all know that this answer doesn't reflect reality
John
You have hit the issue of complying with the Equality Act on the head. There will be plenty of people whose condition is such that taking notes o...
There are other 'lies' in the updated Atos Blog
"Less than 1% of those who agreed to a recorded assessment requested a copy"
The report actually st...
The DWP is simply incapable to getting the numbers correct:
344 out of 500 agreed to have their WCA recorded.
78 of the 344 did not attend a WCA (we...
The DWP admitted is has no policy that covers what it considers acceptable equipment (this is only opinion and not Law. The fact that it has no real gu...