New #Atos shame: Sick and disabled benefits applicants forced to go weeks without money as a result of new rules for appeals
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/new-atos-shame-sick-and-disabled-benefits-applicants-forced-to-go-wee
People with serious disabilities and health conditions are being left for weeks with no financial support by Government changes to benefit assessments.
Under new rules introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions in October, anyone wanting to appeal a decision that they are fit to work first has to have all their paperwork looked at again, while receiving no sickness benefits. The Citizens Advice Bureau believes this will result in thousands of people being wrongly forced to survive on no income at all.