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Showing posts with label UNUM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNUM. Show all posts
Friday, March 8, 2013

Letter from Iain Duncan Smith:ATOS/DWP are doing a great job

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DPAC's Website goes down - shortly after publishing a letter from Iain Duncan Smith ---------------------------------------------...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Unum: Getting rich on disability denial

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Debbie Jolly reports on US insurance giant Unum, whose ‘biopsychosocial model’ is being used to justify the devastating cuts in disability ...

Coalition's support fund won't protect disabled from bedroom tax

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The £30m fund promised by David Cameron will cover just £2.71 of the £14-a-week loss in housing benefit facing disabled claimants. By far ...

Atos Are Just Medical Mercenaries Leeching off the Vulnerable…

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John Mackintosh a so-called Manager for the WCA Process at Atos thinks his company is compassionate, this poor fellow has obviously been t...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

DWP manipulated DLA figures to justify cuts, say MPs

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The government has been accused by MPs of “manipulating” its own benefit statistics in a bid to justify scrapping working-age disability l...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Government deliberately misrepresenting the poor, say churches

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 Churches claim several "myths" have emerged as a result of the way information is used  By John McManus BBC News ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

ESA appeals nightmare confirmed

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Created on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:45 Claimants could be left without any income replacement benefit at all when challenging a d...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

DWP bullying of mentally ill and vulnerable has to stop

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A plea from Lynn Blackmore: “Please would people kindly sign this petition which ends 20th March.  I have tried very hard to get this to 1...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Unum bragged about ‘driving government thinking’ on incapacity benefit reform

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An insurance company set to make huge financial gains from incapacity benefit (IB) reform bragged about “driving” the government towards tho...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Welfare reform maze leaving claimants ‘in limbo’

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THOUSANDS of vulnerable claimants are losing out on benefits because GPs are not filling in forms correctly, Scotland on Sunday has learned....
Monday, February 4, 2013

Lords to debate the PACE Study | Wednesday, 6 February 2013

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A short, hour-long debate on the controversial PACE Study has been scheduled to take place in the House of Lords Grand Committee Room ne...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Is Parliament fit for purpose? [Michael Meacher MP]

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" The evil is not Atos...the real evil is the DWP...and the Ministerial instructions that set up this system...  It’s the system itse...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

When big business dabbles with welfare; a cautionary tale

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“Jack Gilligan, who was the Democratic governor of Ohio… said ‘You know there will never be democracy in America when big business can ...

ATOS Welfare Debate January 17th 2013

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THE ATOS HEALTHCARE DEBATE A briefing for the HOC debate to be held on 17th January 2013 CONSIDER: Atos Healthcare, Unum Insurance, a Knight...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Professor Wessely: Knocking the Docs & Overstepping the Mark

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I feel that my last post ended on a somewhat cryptic note  regarding Professor Wessely, and that I need to support the claim I made about th...