Psychological tyranny prescribed by the DWP: preventable harm is government policy

Influenced by corporate America, the commonly labelled 'welfare reforms' began in July 2006 with the introduction of the Welfare Reform Bill by the New Labour government, and guaranteed that claimants of long-term out-of-work sickness and disability benefit were to be coerced and intimidated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) simply for committing the 'crime' of being too ill to work.In October 2018 it will be 10 years since the DWP replaced Incapacity Benefit with the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), adopted the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to be conducted by an unaccountable private contractor to resist funding the ESA, and guaranteed that GP opinion would be rendered meaningless for chronically ill patients in need of financial support by the DWP. 1 ALL MEDICAL EVIDENCE DISREGARDEDAccess to medical history is not available to the private contractor who conducts the WCA, and the DWP administrators who allocate the ESA admitted to Professor Malcolm Harrington as long ago as 2010 that they don't understand the medical paperwork provided by claimants to support their ESA applications.2 These DWP 'Decision Makers' confirmed that they disregard all medical evidence and simply confirm the findings of the WCA, which is described as a 'nonmedical functional assessment'.