ATOS - leaked report shows "DWP is holding Atos to extremely tight tolerances"

I strongly advise people to read the link IntenseWorld has provided.

I honestly had the impression reading it, that I was reading historical documents on the operation of the concentration camps and gas chambers under the ***.

Does that sound like I'm exaggerating? I wish I was. We seem to have become insensitive to much of what goes on around us now. Maybe too much media exposure to TV and Video fiction dulls our reactions. I'm not being party political but it is crystal clear to me that the present coalition government has sunk to the lowest level of immorality and inhumanity, and this ATOS system is little better than the Nazi's strategy for the Final Solution.

Twenty years ago a report like this would have resulted in a General Election being called immediately, not because of how we provided for the disabled obviously, but just the level of public revulsion such a thing would have generated. Wolfbear compares things to Thatcherism. Thatcherism was never this bad.

An ATOS assessor will see 40 people a day. He has a quota allocated - 65% (2 out of 3 approximately) will fail the assessment.

Of the remaining 35% only 14.5% will be allowed ESA, the remaining 20.5% will go to work related activity.

Assessors are working to tight budgets and face penalties if they drift from these "targets".

That's not all. Whether ESA or work activity, all those passed are divided into 5 review terms from 6 to 24 months. These review terms are based on an assumption of recovery.

People with lifelong or degenerative conditions should go on the three year term but many are ending up on 6 monthly review.

As to the points system, it seems they are fiddling the scores for multiple disabilities, and trying to keep the scores as low as possible.

I can only see this as NAZI-ism reborn. Every morally upstanding person should see the same. This state of affairs is a profound disgrace and shame on this nation.

I strongly advise people to read the link IntenseWorld has provided.

I honestly had the impression reading it, that I was reading historical documents on the operation of the concentration camps and gas chambers under the ***.

Does that sound like I'm exaggerating? I wish I was. We seem to have become insensitive to much of what goes on around us now. Maybe too much media exposure to TV and Video fiction dulls our reactions. I'm not being party political but it is crystal clear to me that the present coalition government has sunk to the lowest level of immorality and inhumanity, and this ATOS system is little better than the Nazi's strategy for the Final Solution.

Twenty years ago a report like this would have resulted in a General Election being called immediately, not because of how we provided for the disabled obviously, but just the level of public revulsion such a thing would have generated. Wolfbear compares things to Thatcherism. Thatcherism was never this bad.

An ATOS assessor will see 40 people a day. He has a quota allocated - 65% (2 out of 3 approximately) will fail the assessment.

Of the remaining 35% only 14.5% will be allowed ESA, the remaining 20.5% will go to work related activity.

Assessors are working to tight budgets and face penalties if they drift from these "targets".

That's not all. Whether ESA or work activity, all those passed are divided into 5 review terms from 6 to 24 months. These review terms are based on an assumption of recovery.

People with lifelong or degenerative conditions should go on the three year term but many are ending up on 6 monthly review.

As to the points system, it seems they are fiddling the scores for multiple disabilities, and trying to keep the scores as low as possible.

I can only see this as NAZI-ism reborn. Every morally upstanding person should see the same. This state of affairs is a profound disgrace and shame on this nation.