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…
if anything comes up the assessor gets the blame for not working accurately enough and making errors.
In my personal experience, the assessors themselves should shoulder a lot of the blame. I’ve had assessors blatantly lie on my reports, and come up with stupid reasons to fail me. For example, one wrote on my report that I can see perfectly, even though I told her repeatedly that I’m partially sighted and that vision is not coming back. I had one say that I should constantly rotate my head when I walk, to give me a full field of vision, so that I don’t need to be given any points for partial sightedness on the assessment. And when I made a complaint about these things, I was told that the DWP has no idea which assessor carried out the assessment so there is nothing they can do.
In my personal experience, the assessors themselves should shoulder a lot of the blame. I’ve had assessors blatantly lie on my reports, and come up with stupid reasons to fail me. For example, one wrote on my report that I can see perfectly, even though I told her repeatedly that I’m partially sighted and that vision is not coming back. I had one say that I should constantly rotate my head when I walk, to give me a full field of vision, so that I don’t need to be given any points for partial sightedness on the assessment. And when I made a complaint about these things, I was told that the DWP has no idea which assessor carried out the assessment so there is nothing they can do.