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New Atos test to involve putting people on disability benefits in a wicker man

This has better wheelchair access than over 50% of Atos test centres

This has better wheelchair access than over 50% of Atos test centres

Atos, the company which carries out work capability tests on those in receipt of benefits due to illness and/or disability, has announced that it is  implementing a tougher test which will involve placing claimants in a wicker man.

Esther McVey, Conservative MP and Minister for Disabled People, spoke of her delight with the new system. “As I said in an interview earlier this year, this government is very generous to disabled people. Now after a long consultation of ten minutes minus the time it took to drink the coffee and enjoy a hobnob, I and my colleagues who are all able to work and whose basic salaries put us in the top five percent of wage earners in this country even before we’ve cracked open the treasure chest that is the MPs expense allowance have decided that that is not on.” Continue reading

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