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Patients 'dying before benefits assessments'
Privateer Capita presiding over a 'scandalous' backlog of claims for personal independence payments
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Patients are dying before they are assessed by private contractor Capita for welfare payments to help them cope, MPs have said.
The company was contracted to carry out assessments under the recently introduced personal independence payment (PIP) system.
But at a Westminster Hall debate, Labour MP Susan Elan Jones called Capita’s unprecedented case backlog “a scandal of national proportions” and called for urgent government action.
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