Not for 78,000 claimants- waiting over a year!
Only the other week we had the DWP recklessly fuelling the tabloids over its absurd claims that 15,000 Disability claimants (most of whom were pensioners and children) were seemingly breaking a leg to get their claims in before the dreaded new Personal Capability Assessment comes in to being this April for new claiments; the DWP neglected to make sure the media told everyone how the figures they were quoting were months out of date!
When challenged over the figures the DWP advocate that you should ‘dig deep’ and look beyond their damaging headlines. When you do so it’s interesting to see what you turf up – the utterly chaotic Employment & Support Allowance ‘reassessment of the sick’ programme goes from bad to worse as it is revealed (upon digging deeper in to their figures) that thousands upon thousands of claimants remain ‘stuck’ in what the DWP term the ‘assessment phase’ of an allowance which seems to be getting its claimants no support at all in to employment.
Read more about the DWP’s ‘customer journey to nowhere’ The DWP’s most up to date figures for May 2012 (the figures for August 2012 are apparently ‘delayed’) show that an astonishing 455,860 claimants are either waiting for their Work Capability Assessment to be completed or waiting for an appeal against a decision they believe to be wrong. What is totally unacceptable is how a programme which is meant to be helping people back to work is seeing no less than 77,820 claimants waiting a year or more for their assessment or appeal to lead to any kind of proper decision! – in nearly 30,000 cases it’s over 2 years!
This is nothing short of a National outrage which the mainstream media have a duty to publish.
Here’s the official DWP figures….
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| DWPs ESA Process in Chaos? You can check them against the official DWP tables here…. DWP figures for May 2012 DWP figures for February 2012 With thanks to the brilliant Nick at Mylegal for more from Nick see http://ilegal.org.uk/ Twitter: @Mylegalforum Source |
