MAXIMUS = ATOS ANOTHER FAILED CONTRACTOR -- 700,000 BACKLOG -- Updated 15 August, 2017

Updated 15 August, 2017 - Who is just a guilty about that mess is Theresa May who was Home Secretary at the time. How could she let it run up to 700,000 applications and not being dealt with. What happened to it?  All the time people did not get any money and some died of starvation or committed suicide while she calmly sat back, playing the Home Secretary !!

UPDATED 20 June,2015
PM Cameron should have cancelled altogether and continuing paying the benefits instead of wasting taxpayers' money contracting US Maximus. How much did Maximus cost?

Maximus was already in court in the USA for fraud and ill-treating disabled people. It seems that the USA has more principles in this respect. Atos was never pulled into court for causing suicide and death for starvation because their benefit was withdrawn. The very fact of 700,000 backlog is evidence enough for the con.

UPDATE: 20 November, 2014 -- Now after all this time and endless hurt and suicides,  the Government is cancelling ATOS contract by the end of this year. However, it engaged already a new company from America called Maximus. 

After spending £1billion on the contract of ATOS they now walk out leaving 700,000 backlog; in other words they did nothing but shoddy work and disabled people had to suffer. According to the reports the company Maximus has a bad record in America on disability discrimination and fraud. Why is the Government engaging a company like that with such an reputation? What happen to the 700,000 backlog? What happen to the people who received no money as part of the backlog? They can not live on fresh air but apparently it is of no concern to the government.

Is there any of PM David Cameron’s contractors which delivered a full and correct service?  They either have a backlog or fiddled the books to achieve the Government’s target.  All the Coalition reforms and contractors have ended in the most diabolical results better called mess.  Costing the taxpayers billions of pounds so far and more billions of pounds to put it right.  Margaret Thatcher and her Tory party devastating results are still felt today but David Cameron’s reign is even worse. If they have another term after the next General Election in 2015 it means Goodbye Britain. The country and its people do not deserve that.

ATOS hit the headline again and this time in spite of all their ruthlessness towards benefit dependent people they achieved a backlog of over 700,000 which even the Government can not ignore it any longer.  Again the major blame lies with the Tory-led Government. They must have had complains for a long time to reach 712,000 people waiting for their medical assessment.  This is a scandal which has no excuse and they can not blame the Labour any longer but as always when they are really up to having to admit it is their fault David Cameron stays silence. Or is it done purposely to avoid payment?

Beside at least 1,000 people either committed suicide or died of their illnesses escalated by their benefits cuts and they worried themselves to death. Something of which the Coalition would not know anything about it, Money worries.

The Tory's Work and Pensions Minister Mike Penning had the decency to admit: “I don’t think Atos had the capacity to do what was asked,” he told the Common Work and Pension select committee. He should have gone a step further when one scandal broke after another to admit that ATOS never had the capacity. They are just there to cream off and again from the taxpayers’ money for some unknown reason but can guess David Cameron and his Government turned a blind eye to it. There were too many reports of ATOS’ failure and being absolute so cruel that disabled people committed suicide. At no time could have David Cameron, his advisers and Cabinet not be aware of what is going on in ATOS and is still going on.

With ATOS on one side and the Department of Work and Pensions’ reform on the other which is another total failure it is no wonder that 11 million people live in poverty and food banks are multi-plying by the number.

It took just four years for the Tories to run the country into the ground again, just like the previous Tory government but even worse. Previously the Tory government ended with five million unemployed but did not sink that low that people had to go to food banks or food banks had to be established.

It took just four years for the Tories to make the rich super rich at the same time as grinding the public into the ground. According to the Telegraph newspaper the list of the rich are the biggest in Europe.  Well David Cameron can be proud of that.

Now Mr Penning revealed that the French Company ATOS’s contract would be cancelled next year. Again a failure of the Government for not to cancel it immediately.  Any employer who creates a mess would be sacked straight away. Any company in the private sector which creates such a backlog would have gone bankrupt long time ago.

Mr Penning announced as a consolation price that ATOS had been fined several times and will pay back a substantial sum.  However, knowing the Tories my suspicious mind can not help but doubt it and it is not an anti-Tory opinion but there had been anything but promises which were never fulfilled.

ATOS NOW MAXIMUS SENDS INCURABLE SICK PEOPLE TO WORK -- Updated 23 June, 2015

Instead of paying his disabled people the rightful benefit; Cameron pays ATOS and MAXIMUS millions of pounds.
Plus Ian Duncan Smith pays £44million bonuses out.

What kind of politics are these?  2,400 disabled people died or committed suicide.

Over three million people are expelled from receiving benefits. Surprise, surprise their unemployment figures are down.

UPDATED:  23 June, 2015 --
MAXIMUS took over from Atos but nothing has changed.  Already the first reports coming out that a man who has MS and can not speak, walk and feed himself had been asked twice to attend an interview at his local job centre otherwise his benefits get cut. The rule is, if you do not attend the interview your disability benefit gets stopped.

The Government must have paid another big sum to Maximus and wasted taxpayers money. 
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Ian Duncan Smith says it all and shows his disgusting character.  
Yet he sits in the Government and receiving high salaries and bonuses.
At the moment it is the worst Government 
there ever was.
It is a disgrace to Britain and its British people

UPDATE:  26 November, 2014 --                                                                                                   ATOS finally lost its contract but is replaced by Maximus; an  American Company which had already been in court in America for fraud and bad management of disabled people's account.

To hire a company like that with such n reputation to replace ATOS to deal with ill and disabled people is another disgrace and disrespect to disabled people for tor Government. 

People with devastating life-long illnesses were told by ATOS if they want to get better to go out and get a job. This shocking result emerged from a research by leading charities.

This Government is really going beyond any reason with almost FIVE million unemployed, most of them healthy but can’t get a job. No, Mr Cameron they are not scroungers just in case you trying to pull yourself out of it with that flat story. Also no disputing the figure of 4.9 million unemployed because it came from the Office of National Statistics.

Instead of paying ATOS  £1billion which does the Work Capability Assessment and they telling people to go to work despite of a lifelong or life-threatening illnesses is another of the Government failure. Anyone in their right mind would suggest investing £1billion into the economy to provide jobs. The general public is absolutely stunned by what goes on in Parliament.

Research held by Parkinson’s UK, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, the MS Society and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society resulted in 45 per cent were told they would be able to recover to the stage where they are able to work again. How dare they suggest this?  It is absolutely ludicrous when doctors haven’t got a cure and scientists are still looking for it.

A fine example Jim, 58 from the North Pennines said: “It was six years after they diagnosed with Parkinson that I was finally forced to give up work. Please mark the wording “finally forced to give up work”.

“After the first ESA assessment they said I should be able to work within three months I was flabbergasted.

“Last year I applied for ESA again as my Parkinson had got worse.

“I was told I should be able to return to work in 18 months. I asked to be reassessed but the DWP refused. “This is so stupid and insulting. Anyone knows that these diseases are progressing and not getting better. 

Of course, all this lunacy suit the Government but it must be so hurtful to long-term and life-threatening ill people. Is there no humanity any more in this Government?

No, the DWP rather spends £1.3 money on extra staff because they didn’t manage to get computer system going for Cameron’s flagship to reform the system began on 1 April and still not working.

An incredible and irresponsible £44million bonuses for DWB staff.  Staff which is so incompetent; when  their whole system is in a mess.  It is an insult Jim and all disabled people. 

It is a crime to cut Disability Benefit and spent the money on extra staff because they can’t get the computer system started and especially £44million bonuses paid to staff. How dare this Government treat the people like that?

Caroline Hacker, of Parkinson UK, said: “This is the latest in a line of unspeakable failures by ATOS Healthcare and the Government to support those who need it most.  To tell people who have to give up work because of debilitating progressive condition that they’ll recover are farcical and defies belief.” She adds further: “There is strong evidents working can be beneficial for many people who have health condition.” 

We don’t dispute that but only in some cases and only to some extent. The main problem is for those few who can and like to carry on that there nearly five million healthy people unemployed so how can people with Parkinson, Cystic Fibrosis, MS and Rheumatoid Arthritis get a job?

Who are these people in ATOS and Government to tell they are getting better when the whole Medical World is fighting and struggling to find a cure? They all talk rubbish so that they can put ‘refused’ on the paper and that ATOS will be kept in the good books of the Government.

ATOS is another of David Cameron’s flagship and costs a fortune which could have been spent on Disability Allowances. It is known that they were told by the Government they should refuse seven out of eight.

Already there were over a thousand death recorded from worries which escalated their bad state of health. 

ATOS is not worried about that because they done their job and get a fat salary. What is happening now, it backfires on the Government? People take legal aid and go to court.  When they get their Disability Benefits reinstated they have back pay. 

So when David Cameron struts about like a peacock and feels he cut down the welfare at the end it will cost him more because of all the extra cost. 

This disgraceful Government not only cut the Disability Benefit, paid ATOS a French firm a £1billion to force people back to work but they also closed REMPLOY factories where disabled people could find a job.

It leaves anyone gasping and asks what are they doing?

Source  Daily Mirror