Home Assessment Anomaly…..

The DWP have released figures about the number of PIP home assessments carried by IAS (formerly Atos) and Capita.

The statistics reveal that the following home PIP assessments were carried out in 2018-2019:

Scotland & the North (IAS) 76,890
The South of England (IAS) 47,160
Wales and Midlands (Capita) 116,630
We don’t have figures for the total number of assessments carried out by the two companies for that precise period.

But we do know that in the whole of 2018 Capita carried out 221,800 assessments.

For the same period IAS carried out 733, 800

So, this suggests that approximately 50% of all Capita claimants are assessed at home.

But only around 16% of IAS assessments are at home.

So, claimants in Wales and the Midlands are three times more likely to be spared a long trip to an assessment centre as claimants in the North and South of England and in Scotland.

So ATOS up to their old tricks.

Looks like I was so lucky to have a home Assessment living in
the south.

That made such a difference to me! Firstly not having to travel
which is always a nightmare. Secondly the assessor could see
me in the home environment where I spend 99% of my time. He
was amazed at all the Adaptations and gadgets and stopped the
assessment saying I would not have any problem with his report.
He did not even bother to see my level access shower and
electric profiling bed.

Crazy that for such an important decision that affects
disabled people’s lives so much there are such differences.
We should all be entitled to a home visit under the same conditions.