10 November 2017

WinVisible submits evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee about how assessment regime causes disabled women “terrifying insecurity”, including links to deaths, including suicides. 

What: WinVisible submits evidence to the Commons work and pensions select committee about the impact of disability benefit assessments on disabled women. The evidence shows ESA and PIP assessments are leading to “suicides or admissions to NHS psychiatric institutions”, and causing “enormous suffering, destitution and [are] hastening deaths of sick and disabled people”.

Why significant: Further direct grassroots evidence of the damage caused by both the WCA and the PIP assessments on claimants, and their links to people’s deaths.