Part 1 of this article is from the Press Association and part 2 is written by me.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has spent more than £100m in just over two years on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefits, figures show.
Tens of millions of pounds a year are also spent by the Ministry of Justice on the appeals, about two-thirds of which were won by claimants in the past 12 months.
The costs were described as “staggering” and a former Conservative minister said “something is seriously wrong with the system”.
The DWP said a small proportion of decisions were overturned and most employment and support allowance and personal independence payment claimants were happy with their assessments. (However, please see: Summary of key problems with the DWP’s recent survey of claimant satisfaction.)
But the department is facing questions from the work and pensions select committee…
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