ATOS And Capita Have Employed More Staff To Increase PIP Assessments
October 14, 2014
Welfare Weekly reports on the latest edition of the DWP staff magaine, Touchbase:
Touchbase also reveals that Atos and Capita have employed more staff to increase the number of assessments they do for the new disability benefit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
The reports used by assessors have also been improved, claim the DWP, and changes have been made to the PIP IT system. DWP say that PIP decision-makers have doubled their output since April 2014.
They also claim that disabled people will not have to wait more than 16 weeks for a PIP assessment by the end of 2014.
The news comes after charities and politicians raised concerns over a growing PIP assessment backlog.
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Same Difference 
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Can you think of a more horrific 16 weeks?
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it’s not just the wait for the assessment, it’s also the long wait for the outcome. I had an assessment by Capita in May and still await the outcome. I was told at the time as there was such a backlog i’d have a long wait. Why on earth when the system was already backlogged and not working properly did they roll it our further earlier this year?
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cams stated in the house this government had employed more nurses but then meaning you to believe it was the nhs na you guessed they went to crapita atos serco and salus most would think he meant nhs but devious they are taking away your benefits mean more than health care it seems jeff3
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Saw a job opening for a Receptionist with ATOS. Reading the thing had me shaking; I can’t imagine the kind of person that would WANT to work for them.
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More staff to sit bored repeating computer says no.
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