Stop Atos Cutting Disability Benefits, Glasgow Mon. 6th June 5.30pm
Martin O'Neill | 30.05.2011 20:03 | Social Struggles
Picket Atos Recruitment Evening
Atos Medical Assessment Centre
Corunna House
29 Cadogan Street
Glasgow G2 7AB
Monday 6th June
5.30pm – 8.30pm
Atos Medical Assessment Centre
Corunna House
29 Cadogan Street
Glasgow G2 7AB
Monday 6th June
5.30pm – 8.30pm
Who are Atos?
Atos Healthcare are a part of a private, profit making corporation. On behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), they carry out the medical assessments, now called 'Work Capability Assessments (WCA), for Employment Support Allowance (formerly Incapacity Benefit).
What do they do?
Atos are currently recruiting more medical professionals to carry out new assessments on all people on sickness benefits. They are actively carrying out the Government’s plan of cutting sickness benefits by £2.5 billion. The process is driven by cost cutting not objective medical opinion. In recent trials of their largely unreliable new computerised medical test 29% of claimants had their benefits cut, but most people win their case when they appeal with the help of an advice centre. Atos will be also recruiting more staff to carry out these distressing and degrading tests on all people on Disability Living Allowance for the first time, where the plan is to cut the budget by 20%. The Government are cutting these benefits to reduce the debt caused by bankers gambling on the financial markets. The most vulnerable in society are being made to pay for the greed of the rich and the inevitable booms and busts of capitalist economics.
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Atos Healthcare are a part of a private, profit making corporation. On behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), they carry out the medical assessments, now called 'Work Capability Assessments (WCA), for Employment Support Allowance (formerly Incapacity Benefit).
What do they do?
Atos are currently recruiting more medical professionals to carry out new assessments on all people on sickness benefits. They are actively carrying out the Government’s plan of cutting sickness benefits by £2.5 billion. The process is driven by cost cutting not objective medical opinion. In recent trials of their largely unreliable new computerised medical test 29% of claimants had their benefits cut, but most people win their case when they appeal with the help of an advice centre. Atos will be also recruiting more staff to carry out these distressing and degrading tests on all people on Disability Living Allowance for the first time, where the plan is to cut the budget by 20%. The Government are cutting these benefits to reduce the debt caused by bankers gambling on the financial markets. The most vulnerable in society are being made to pay for the greed of the rich and the inevitable booms and busts of capitalist economics.
More info: The Crutch Collective on Facebook
Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=188876404494450
Martin O'Neill
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ATOS against ATOS
01.06.2011 17:48
Mate of mine was a postal worker coming up to retirement. Wanted to stay working at Royal Mail until he could retire (with his well-earned Royal Mail pension). Gets a routine medical at work (from ATOS) - the result is "oh no you can't carry on with that job, you've got back problems". He's got occasional slight back pain but nothing that stops him doing the job. But, no ATOS reckon he must retire (before he draws his pension).
My mate is pissed off at not being able to finish at his job - and not being eligible for the pension he's paid for. Now unemployed, ATOS and Royal Mail tell him he should claim Disability Living Allowance (DLA). He goes to claim it, but there's a medical first. The medical is done by ATOS. They examine that back problem (diagnosed first time by ATOS as too severe to work) and conclude...he not eligible for DLA because he doesn't have anything wrong with his back.
ATOS, like A4e, are parasites, liers and thieves.
Atos Sers