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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.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families