Agenda 2019

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/end-disability-benefits-fiasco-ministers-told-9550115.html End disability benefits ‘fiasco’, ministers told       Another of Iain Duncan-Smith's "reforms", this time  the personal independence payment (PIP), causing distress to vulnerable people.  An ill conceived scheme being managed by an inept DWP, resulting in delays and chaos. Iain Duncan-Smith. DWP Minister It is a disgrace and scandal for which IDS and his dogmatic obsession with "welfare reform" is completely responsible. The ATOS connection: The committee also accused Atos, one of the companies carrying out the assessments, of supplying “incorrect and potentially misleading” information when bidding for the work. In a tender document in 2012 it stated it had “contractual agreements” with 56 NHS hospitals, 25 private hospitals and more than 650 physiotherapy centres – a claim which turned out “not to be true”, the committee s...

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/23/iain-duncan-smith-wrag-benefit-cuts?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position4:anchor%20image  550,000 people currently considered too sick to work face losing financial support Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith   Iain Duncan-Smith crawls out from the woodwork with yet another pernicious proposal designed to inflict financial hardship on those least able to resist and to punish people for being sick. This is not in itself, unusual in this ConDem coalition country, where the demonisation and marginalisation of those sections of society, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed and any other benefit claimants are considered to be prime targets for cuts to the welfare system in the name of austerity and "saving money". In the case of Duncan-Smith, he alone stands out as the undisputed leader of the drive for harsher and harsher measures and takes the...