Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors every month when dealing with the benefit claims of disabled people, information released by the depart…
It’s such a shitty system to work in too. The DWP sets strong targets on the number of rejections that staff have to make, heavily incentivising them to reject claimants, they also have huge targets on the number of claims handled in a day. Which means that the assessor hasn’t got enough time to check properly and has to reject a certain amount of claims - so of course they do. Then if anything comes up the assessor gets the blame for not working accurately enough and making errors. It’s a really abusive system that I’m sure is designed to deny claims to as many people as possible and to shift all blame onto the assessors whilst also reducing the assessors ability to empathise.
People say the point of a system is what the system does, so I guess the point of the DWP disability claims system is to cruely terrorise and neglect the most vulnerable people in our society, whilst providing the government that commands it the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability.
It’s such a shitty system to work in too. The DWP sets strong targets on the number of rejections that staff have to make, heavily incentivising them to reject claimants, they also have huge targets on the number of claims handled in a day. Which means that the assessor hasn’t got enough time to check properly and has to reject a certain amount of claims - so of course they do. Then if anything comes up the assessor gets the blame for not working accurately enough and making errors. It’s a really abusive system that I’m sure is designed to deny claims to as many people as possible and to shift all blame onto the assessors whilst also reducing the assessors ability to empathise.
People say the point of a system is what the system does, so I guess the point of the DWP disability claims system is to cruely terrorise and neglect the most vulnerable people in our society, whilst providing the government that commands it the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability.