The Government announced earlier this year that it would begin stationing 350 psychological therapists at jobcentres to support and assess claimants.
Atos is a French IT company engaged by the government to run the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) contract to assess claimants for sickness and disability benefits.
Perhaps if we assessed claimants fairly and treated them with respect, we would go some way towards reducing ignorance in the wider community.
When Capita begins its contract, in June, to assess claimants for the new disability benefit, known as personal independence payment (PIP), all of the assessment centres will be located on the ground floor.
In March, a new, US company, Maximus, will take on the job of assessing whether claimants are eligible for sickness and disability benefits.
The guidance notes say that managing agents are entitled to charge administration fees to their leaseholders, but only that which relates to eligible service charges should be taken into account when assessing the claimant's universal credit entitlement.
When assessing a claimant with depression, the IPs can check all the relevant items and to make sure that they have not forgotten anything.
