Lawyers Know More About Health Than Doctors- John Hutton Strikes Again

Mother hating basket case John Hutton continues to dream up new scams to deny welfare payments:-

Under welfare reform plans, Incapacity Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance would be scrapped and replaced with a single Employment and Support Allowance for those whose health affects their ability to work.
NAWRA criticised the Department for Work and Pensions for using “legal experts” to draft the tests rather than experts in occupational and mental health, physical and learning disabilities.“The whole essence of the test has changed,’ said Judy Stenger, mental health welfare rights adviser.

“In fact there have been 70-odd changes made by DWP legal experts…all of which seem to make it harder for claimants to secure sickness status because of their mental health.
“Vulnerable claimants who would have been deemed unfit for work in the eyes of experts will now find themselves forced to negotiate the considerable challenges of survival as job seekers.
“And it won’t just hurt people’s pockets, it will also harm their mental health.”

The new test would also make it far harder for people with limited intellectual functioning to answer questions about their state of health accurately, NAWRA said.”‘Previously, people with severe mental health problems or significant learning disabilities were exempted from the Personal Capability Assessment,” said association chairman Alan Markey.
“This will no longer be the case within Employment and Support Allowance.” -

Tory bastards, oh I’m sorry, Nu-Labour bastards. I got confused there for a moment. Using lawyers! Is there no more obvious signifier that this is a scam to cut welfare payments and achieve govt. targets and fuck the people who die in the process. Because make no mistake the PCA (which when challenged at appeals have been found to be wrong, fraudulently altered and ineptly applied) has already caused suicides and this will increase them.