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Labour MP Slams ‘Unacceptable’ Capita Disability Benefit Assessments

Labour MP, Peter Hain, has called on disability benefit assessment firm Capita and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to "urgently reform" its "punitive" assessment process, which is "causing no end of misery" to sick and disabled claimants, before it descends into similar "problems experienced with ATOS and the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments".

30 Jan 2014
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David Cameron on helping parents of disabled children

Because of his own personal experience of caring for a disabled child, David Cameron has always promised to give the issue special attention. During election campaigning in 2010 David Cameron spoke to Jonathan Bartley and his disabled son Samuel Photo: PA 2:22PM GMT 20 Jan 2011

30 Jan 2014
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