“You have nothing to fear…It is a proud duty to provide financial security to
the most vulnerable members of our society, and this will not change. This is
our contract with the most vulnerable”. That was Iain Duncan Smith in 2010.
He added: “This government and this party don’t regard caring for the needy as a
burden”.
But judging by the remarks of Lord Freud, the Tory DWP minister, maybe they regard it as a big money-spinning project for private companies. This is Freud: “We’re going to go at this (moving people off IB on to either ESA or JSA) very fast and hard….The scale of the potential market is large…I have no doubt that this will be an annual multi-billion pound market”. So what has happened? The People’s Review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) has just published this month a searing indictment of the human casualties of this policy, including those absurdly assessed as fit to work but who then died or committed suicide before their appeal was heard. The report, which I strongly recommend others to get hold of, makes grim reading. Here are 3 examples of the 14 quoted in detail.
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But judging by the remarks of Lord Freud, the Tory DWP minister, maybe they regard it as a big money-spinning project for private companies. This is Freud: “We’re going to go at this (moving people off IB on to either ESA or JSA) very fast and hard….The scale of the potential market is large…I have no doubt that this will be an annual multi-billion pound market”. So what has happened? The People’s Review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) has just published this month a searing indictment of the human casualties of this policy, including those absurdly assessed as fit to work but who then died or committed suicide before their appeal was heard. The report, which I strongly recommend others to get hold of, makes grim reading. Here are 3 examples of the 14 quoted in detail.
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