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Social entitlement chamber takes on 87 new judges to deal with appeal backlogs
Telegraph article says that welfare savings being jeopardised because ‘in some cases claimants continue to receive payments for more than a year while their appeal is being processed.’ -
Or to put it another way, welfare savings being jeopardised because of spectacularly poor levels of medical assessment and decision making on WCAs…...
I am concerned that this may be a bit of “kite flying” by DWP sources who wish to test the water either about trimming appeal rights (which is already included in the Welfare Reform Bill with the proposed need to first seek a reconsideration) and/or to remove payments of ESA pending an appeal hearing, which has already been discussed elsewhere in the forum.
As others have commented, there is a solution: Get the ESA decisions right first time round, but then that would then undermine the real agenda of slashing the numbers on ESA.
Odd how there don’t appear to be any penalty threshold payments in the Atos contract, or maybe there are, but of course ‘it’s commercially sensitive’ so we are not allowed to know, despite the taxpayer funding the contract.
And anyway, it’s not costing public purse anything because they’re on the same rate they’d be if claiming JSA!
...and 87 posts have been created for 87 judges to boost the economy!