ALL disability benefits interviews must be taped, activists have demanded.

The call comes amid concerns that officials may be falsely recording events at Personal Independence Payment (Pip) assessments.

Campaigners also say that disabled claimants have soiled themselves or suffered epileptic seizures during their interviews, but agency staff have omitted this from their notes.

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) says that there is an “alarming level of disparity” between what happens in Pip assessments and how they are subsequently described in documents presented to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) decision makers.

It has already been established that claimants can record their assessments, but they have to state on an application form if they wish to do so.

However, DPAC claims that there are scores of cases where disabled people have been told upon arrival that there is no recording equipment available in the building.

One example that disability activists relayed to the Morning Star was that of a woman in Sheffield who told those assessing her for Pip that she had soiled herself.

She was not allowed to stop the interview because if she did, her payments would stop.

However, when the assessor’s notes went to decision makers, it was written that the claimant had “no incontinence issues.”

Another example was of a woman being told that that she could not seek medical assistance for her husband when he suffered an epileptic fit during a hearing.

This incident was not recorded at all in the assessment, and the man was refused financial support.

DPAC activist Jennifer Jones told the Star: “It is blatantly obvious to those of us who are going through this system that nobody in government is holding the assessment companies accountable, they seem to be answerable to only themselves.

“While we continue to campaign for Pip assessments to be stopped and scrapped, we now call on the government to introduce legislation to ensure that these assessments are recorded.”

“We refuse to sit by and do nothing while decisions that affect our lives are based on damaging lies and inaccuracies.

“Not one more lie will go unchallenged — together we can make sure of that.”

The DWP has been contacted for comment.