Green Party members yesterday voted to pass an emergency motion calling on the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to stop using IT firm ATOS as its assessor of benefit claimants.
Concerns have been raised over the company's suitability to conduct assessments, ranging from the lack of disabled access at their assessment centres to the shocking fact that 40% of their decisions have been found to be wrong on appeal [1].
Source: Green Party
Read more here: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/09-09-2011-green-party-remove-atos-from-incapacity-testing.html
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