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Figures obtained by Sky News show tens of thousands of people have complained about the controversial assessments.
More than 150,000 people have raised serious concerns about fit-for-work tests administered by a private healthcare company on behalf of the Government. Figures obtained exclusively by Sky News show the charity Citizens Advice has been inundated by huge numbers of complaints about assessments carried out by Atos. It warns that genuinely disabled and seriously ill people are being stripped of benefits following inadequate tests.
Meanwhile, doctors are warning that the service is "unfit for purpose". Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice, warned: "Atos is failing to do its job properly, failing to give taxpayers value for money and worst of all, failing thousands of sick and disabled people who bear the brunt of wrong assessments." It comes as a woman recently widowed tells Sky News about how the decision that her husband was fit for work was not even overturned while he was dying from a rare and aggressive cancer.......Read more here
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