go.oot.by.dog Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 It is criminal the way this organisation are treating people with ill health as am sure you will be aware of if you have been unfortunate enough to have had any dealings with them. I would ask anyone who has had problems to consider contacting there MP and informing him about it. MP for Orkney and Shetland Alistair Carmichael can be contacted at carmichaela@parliament.uk A short clip of a Labour MP talking in the house of Commons today, and i feel he spoke quite well and it is worth watching if only to let you see how bad things really are with ATOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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owre-weel Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 It is criminal the way this organisation are treating people with ill health as am sure you will be aware of if you have been unfortunate enough to have had any dealings with them. I would ask anyone who has had problems to consider contacting there MP and informing him about it. MP for Orkney and Shetland Alistair Carmichael can be contacted at carmichaela@parliament.uk A short clip of a Labour MP talking in the house of Commons today, and i feel he spoke quite well and it is worth watching if only to let you see how bad things really are with ATOS. Interesting clip and well put. I have known more than one person who has cheated the system and gained disability allowance whilst they were more than able to work and its clear that these people need to be taken out of the system. Unfortunately folk like these have given the benefit a bad name. However recently I have been supportive to a friend who is not able to work, was accessed and lost their benefit, they appealed the decision and rightly won their case. However, in the interim, because they lost income, they went into deep debt and their health has suffered greatly. Despite getting their benifits repaid they are still in debt and now in poorer health. This is down to ATOS and the system. It seems they are hell bent on getting as many off benifits as possible, with little concern to the worry and financial difficulties they cause to the disabled person and the method of assessment clearly is not doing what it should. The system desperately needs changing before more genuine folk have to suffer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattie Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atos-told-incontinent-woman-to-wear-nappy-firm-condemned-by-mps-for-pressuring-sick-and-disabled-into-returning-to-work-8456447.htmlTotally Abhorent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Unfortunately in every aspect of life you will have people who will abuse the system in some way or another and take what they can. Right from the top you have the MPs who claimed fraudulent expenses and at the other end of the scale you will have ones claiming benefits they are not entitled to. I do wonder how the MPs who were not claiming fraudulently would have reacted if they had been treated and had their claims dealt with in a manner similar to that of genuinely ill and disabled people who are having theirs withdrawn from them afer going through the indignity and stress of an ATOS assessment. This is a link to the full debate from where the original clip was taken, it starts at 11.53. still not managed to watch all of it but there is an absolute shocking case discussed at 12.36 and the sad thing is by no way is it a unique case, it is happening to many. http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12175 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 The People's Review of the Work Capability Assessment from November 2012 http://wearespartacus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Peoples-Review-of-the-Work-Capability-Assessment.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 Conservative council leader quits over 'lie detector' tests on benefit claimants. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/23/conservative-council-lie-detector-benefits Well done that lady, even more surprising for me is the fact that she is a Tory. Perhaps they should use the 'lie detector' on the MPs when they are claiming their expenses or filling in their tax returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 This parody clip says it all really - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 A fair society? Have a read of this and you decide http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/uploads/attachment/354/a-fair-society.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 A claimant films his work capability assessment undercover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrTa76ltzw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 In April, the government will give a tax cut to everybody earning more than £150,000 per year, and for 8,000 people who earn over £1 million a year, that means a cut of around £2,000 a week. At the same time, someone receiving the adult rate of Jobseekers’ Allowance will get an extra 71p a week. The change in the personal tax allowance will not help people in work on low incomes. Citizens Advice has pointed out that “any rise in net earnings leads to a reduction in housing benefit and council tax benefit.†In fact the improvement for people in low-income work was recorded by Helen Goodman: 13 pence per week. Meanwhile, the average price of weekly grocery shopping has risen by 17 per cent and the energy companies have hiked up their prices by around 11 per cent. Child poverty is set to skyrocket, thanks to the measures of the Government. The Institute for Fiscal Studies tells us that, taking account of everything that the Government announced before the autumn statement, child poverty was already set to increase by 400,000 by 2015 and 800,000 by 2020. Although it was not mentioned in the autumn statement or the impact statement, and a question to the Minister has gone unanswered, the government has let it slip – in a statement by a different minister – that the three years of one-per-cent uprating will increase child poverty by 200,000 – on top of the increase that is already due. That means that we are on track for one million more children below the poverty line by 2020. And at the same time most MP's say they should have a pay rise of nearly 32% which would give them a wage of £86250 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mps-want-20000-pay-rise-1528893 keep up the the good work Mr Cameron and continue with your social cleansing and forget\kill off all the poor and disabled people in the country and look after your own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Panorama tonight (BBC1, 8.30pm) looks into 'The Great Disability Scam' - The fortune being made by private companies, paid by the government to get disabled people off the benefit books - and failing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 A claimant films his work capability assessment undercover. Did you clock the bit at the end where it stated that assessments are being done by NHS staff and not ATOS in Scotland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdal Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I had a look at the ATOS website and the Shetland assessment centre is given as Market House, Market Street. Does part of NHS Shetland work from there ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go.oot.by.dog Posted January 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 A claimant films his work capability assessment undercover. Did you clock the bit at the end where it stated that assessments are being done by NHS staff and not ATOS in Scotland? Yes i did notice he said that and i think it is for the new PIP assessments (see link)which are replacing the DLA for which ATOS won the contract but have appointed NHS Lanarkshire to carry out the assessments. So it will still be ATOS doing the Work Capability Assessments (unfortunately) http://www.update.org.uk/news-detail.php?page=447 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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