The current Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process, managed by private contractors like Capita and Atos, often overlooks the complex medical realities of claimants. Instead of ...

Patients are dying before they are assessed by private contractor Capita for welfare payments to help them cope, MPs have said. The company was contracted to carry out assessments under the recently ...

A Personal Independence Payment (PIP) tool is run by independent ... working for the Independent Assessment Services (IAS), formerly known as ATOS, or for Capita may not reach the same conclusion ...

Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “stop repeating ...

so what assessment have ministers made of that change and are there any links with the rise in fraud?" READ MORE: DWP warns PIP claimants about 12 reasons that could cut their benefits READ MORE: New ...

A new online petition is calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “stop repeating PIP (Personal Independent Payment) assessments for disabled people”. Petition creator Gary ...

Providing a response, DWP parliamentary under-secretary Andrew Western said the PIP process had moved to a mix of telephone, video and in-person assessments to provide "a more efficient and user ...

The DWP has issued a statement on how changes to PIP (Personal Independence Payments) have contributed to a "rise" in benefit fraud. Work and Pensions ministers appeared in the Commons to take ...