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Old 11-10-2016, 23:33   #37
RichardCoulter
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Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Erm, Housing Benefit is mainly administered by Local Authorities, not Civil Servants.
That's right, staff have been leaving because they were not promised redeployment either within their local authority or with the DWP as a civil servant.

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
Private company? The DWP are the ones making the decisions.
Benefit assessors make their decisions based upon evidence supplied by ATOS, Capita etc.

All these companies are interested in is profit, they don't care if the rules are bent or the quality of the information is poor and in turn leads to poor decisions being made that affect our most vulnerable in society.
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