When the numbers just don't add up? ......
There's something about the DWP's massive reassessment programme of around 2.6 million claimants which simply doesn't add up...
... It is a totally unnecessary chaos overly ambitious in its objective and to be quite honest never worth all the money being spent on it because contrary to common belief great numbers are not, in the overall scheme of it all, really being found 'fit for work' at all...
...despite all the harshness of the programme and the billions of pounds which must have been thrown at it there are still almost as many 'on the sick' today as there was when they started this mammoth monster of a reassessment programme. To date the DWP has failed to string all of the available data together to give you the real overall picture...
Each and every DWP statement is specially designed to be widely misleading from the outset. It's pushed out at the beginning to achieve the desired brainwashing effect...
...after which misleading information becomes a complete irrelevance because once you told the wider public that we are a nation of malingerers the damage is done; no amount of small print retraction is going to do anything to reverse the damage...
...It simply cannot make sense to have tested so many with the DWP boasting repeatedly over how many claimants they are finding fit for work with a rigorous test of the sick to end up with a pitifully low reduction of just 38,140 fewer claimants throughout the duration of the Employment & Support Allowance reassessment programme by scrutinising the figures available between August 2008 and February 2012 ....
Total reduction in overall incapacity benefit
claimant
count
(August 2008 - February 2012)
2,632,000 minus - 2,593,860
>> 38,140 <<
38,140 fewer 'on the sick' - how can it be so few?
That's the questions millions of tax payers would want an answer to if this was, as it should be, splashed all over the headlines. We are being sold this 'fixing of the sick' as achieving positive results because all we ever hear about are limited statistics on the outcome of the Work Capability Assessment telling us 'X' amount of people have been found 'fit for work'. It's simple, if the assessment was as good at doing what it says on the tin (what I believe Government calls the 'Ronseal' deal) the numbers on the sick would have plummeted far more dramatically than they actually have.
Think of all the millions upon millions spent on costly DWP decision-making, claim processing and all those Atos assessments, the need for endless appeals, requests for reconsiderations, repeat assessments, changes in the law, hours debating all of it in Parliament, the DWP running round like headless chickens trying to process it all, the grief suffered by those who are paralysed by fear over being wrongly assessed and worst of all the stories of people who have died in the run up to or shortly after assessments - how can we not see something is badly wrong here with only 38,140 fewer on the sick despite the DWP having reassessed what is now millions of claimants?
I ask you - 38,140 fewer claimants in over 4 years of assessments? It's below the number which the DWP assess in a single month! - how can it possibly make any sense when the DWP are saying they are assessing claimant after claimant and finding approximately half of them completely 'fit for work'?
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Total reduction in overall incapacity benefit
claimant
count
(August 2008 - February 2012)
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2,632,000 minus - 2,593,860
>> 38,140 <<
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