From investegate.co.uk:
The Department for Work and Pensions has today announced the award of three regional contracts to deliver health and disability assessments for the new Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Capita (LON:CPI) has been awarded one of the three contracts, to deliver assessments across central England and Wales.
The precise scope of the contract is still being defined but it is anticipated to be worth around £140m over 5 years. PIP, which is part of the Government's welfare reform agenda, will replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people of working age (16 to 64) from 8 April 2013, and is designed to better reflect today's understanding of disability.
Assessments will be provided for new claimants of PIP as well as existing claimants of DLA. The assessments will be delivered through a network of local consultation centres across central England and Wales, utilising both existing Capita centres and those of disability group partners, and through home visits.
I think this falls within Bob E's definition of deficit spending: the government pretends to receive services and corporatists pretend to provide them.
Thursday, 2 August 2012
"The precise scope of the contract is still being defined"
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"The precise scope of the contract is still being defined"
Yet the scope for lots of disability scandal seems pretty obvious. Maybe they don't care as long as their chums get the money.
AKH, of course they don't care.
Some crooked minister has set a target that party donor X is to receive contracts worth Y million, and IDS has set a target that Z per cent of people on IB are to be reclassified and that is the end of that.
There'll be a few hardship cases, some malingerers will keep up the act and it will turn out that the new replacement benefit is the same as the old one and we can all go back to sleep again, Y million quid poorer.
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