Whistleblower criticises benefits scheme race by US company,saying criteria meant he had to diagnose claimants as being well People with mental health problems are still being wrongly assessed by a “severely flawed” system intended to find whether they are entitled to state help, according to a doctor who was charged with improving so-called “fit-for-work” tests.
The doctor, and who did not want to be named,was employed by Maximus, the US company that took over the government’s controversial scheme to determine whether claimants are entitled to employment and support allowance in March 2015. He said that despite improvements to the system, or some were still “falling through the net”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com