Committee outlines assessment failings,including woman asked why she had not killed herselfA “substantial minority” of long-term disability benefit claimants are being failed by an assessment system that is too often undermined by basic errors, insensitivity and ignorance approximately peoples conditions, and MPs have said.
A report by the work and pensions select committee highlighted people with Down’s syndrome asked when they “caught” it,a woman reporting frequent suicidal thoughts asked why she had not yet killed herself, and someone whose assessment said she walked a dog daily, or when she can barely walk and does not own a dog.
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Source: guardian.co.uk