Disabled set up to fail benefit assessments, says former DWP officer

‘Vulnerable disabled people are being deliberately set up to fail disability benefit assessments, according to an ex DWP officer who now faces the same dreaded system she once worked in.
Anna, 57, says she was encouraged to contact “customers” and “persuade them to either change an answer or elaborate on an answer in a way that would drop themselves in it”.
Anna is currently awaiting a decision on her own claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and is worried that failing the assessment could also mean she will lose her mobility car .. and with it her independence.’
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