Well, Mitch and Wigwam
To hell with the 80,000 to 100,000 who may have been thrown off DLA Mobility or PIP Mobility, at least wigwam know’s of one who in his (rightly or wrongly) opinion should not have qualified even though I am quite sure he has no full knowledge of the person’s full incapacity and I am not quite sure how many you think you know of Mitch.
Do you both not accept that the process is not about throwing of people who are not entitled to DLA/PIP, which we all agree with, it is simply designed to reduce pre-defined figures to cut the number of people getting DLA/PIP without actually assessing them first.
As someone who actually worked for 27 years for DWP, they should never pre-define the figures (which happens) that they want to reduce the number by, who claim a benefit, before you assess them. You should also definitely not be issuing contracts with private companies, with the only aim for them to meet these pre-defined numbers.
I do not dispute that there are some people who should not qualify and should be thrown off, but still get DLA/PIP, but we should not be creating a system where the public are acceptable of putting genuine people off DLA/PIP so that the Government with the assistance of private companies with pre-assessed targets, can put genuine people off DLA/PIP and other benefits, simply to meet Government targets, which clearly happens, otherwise why are the DWP loosing so many appeals.