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WCA makes you sick - the evidence

Paul_Treloar_AgeUK
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Independent reporting that:

The Government’s fit-to-work tests for access to disability benefits are causing permanent damage to some claimants’ mental health, from which they are not recovering, a new study has warned.

The research, conducted by academics at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt and Napier universities, found that the Work Capability Assessment experience “for many, caused a deterioration in people’s mental health which individuals did not recover from”.

DWP’s fit-to-work tests ‘cause permanent damage to mental health’, study finds

SarahJBatty
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Confirms what people tell us front line workers every day.