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atos try try try to get a good image and are at Cardiff Uni tomorrow, THURS 18 Oct!
Newport rd, near ish queesn st station

http://www.facebook.com/events/482462408440447/
PROTEST as Atos comes to Cardiff University
Meet at 9am, Thursday 18th October,
Cardiff School of Engineering, Newport Road
Atos is the vicious profiteering company that is doing the Government's dirty work clearing disabled and vulnerable people off benefits. Campaigning organisation, Disabled People Against Cuts, says that an average of 32 people die every week - some sadly through suicide - after being found fit for work by Atos, which profits from £4 billion worth of public sector contracts every year.
To try and boost its flagging image, Atos has teamed up with the Welsh Assembly to launch an IT competition in Universities and is descending on Cardiff University this Thursday. How about we get together all anticuts campaigners who want to help organise the protest, and form a welcoming committee for them and pop their propaganda bubble?
 
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Thanks to Norris Nuvo
 
Update: my friend has won her appeal with what seems to be minimum fuss. They are now withholding her back payments because they had the wrong address for her (their mistake) and want to send someone round to investigate.

Just pay her the money she's entitled to you shithouse twats :mad:
 
JTG said:
Update: my friend has won her appeal with what seems to be minimum fuss. They are now withholding her back payments because they had the wrong address for her (their mistake) and want to send someone round to investigate.<snip>
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FFS! :facepalm: Glad to hear that your friend won the appeal though, that in itself must be a huge relief.
 
JTG said:
Update: my friend has won her appeal with what seems to be minimum fuss. They are now withholding her back payments because they had the wrong address for her (their mistake) and want to send someone round to investigate.

Just pay her the money she's entitled to you shithouse twats :mad:
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Good news. Why do they need to send someone round to investigate. Can't it be done over the phone?:confused:
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Good news. Why do they need to send someone round to investigate. Can't it be done over the phone?:confused:
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Don't be ridiculous, Minnie, that's far too sensible. :(

Besides, for all they know, you could be anyone of the right sex claiming to be JTG's friend. If they go round in person they can demand to see passports and other proof of ID and address.
 
Greebo said:
Don't be ridiculous, Minnie, that's far too sensible. :(

Besides, for all they know, you could be anyone of the right sex claiming to be JTG's friend. If they go round in person they can demand to see passports and other proof of ID and address.
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Yes, silly me. :facepalm::D
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Good news. Why do they need to send someone round to investigate. Can't it be done over the phone?:confused:
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They've already admitted that it was their keying error which made them think she's changed address. Still sending someone over. Stalling tactics plain and simple, they owe her over 600 quid
 
JTG said:
They've already admitted that it was their keying error which made them think she's changed address. Still sending someone over. Stalling tactics plain and simple, they owe her over 600 quid
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Twunts

Well hopefully she'll get it by Christmas
 
DOCTOR 'SHOCKED' BY BENEFITS SYSTEM
Dr Anne Dyson said the system is so complex it is likely to fail the people who are most in need of help.

Dr Dyson, who works as a general practitioner in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, said she was "shocked" by the bureaucracy of the system after trying to claim employment and support allowance following a breast cancer diagnosis.

Due to her illness and subsequent treatment, she has been unable to work since July and wanted to claim the benefit. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dr Dyson, who has worked as a GP since 1986, described her experience.

She said she was surprised to find that she could not complete an online form but instead had to ring an 0845 number, was put on hold for 30 minutes and then had to complete a 40-minute interview.

Dr Dyson said a form was sent for her to check and sign but contained basic errors, which meant she had to spend a length of time calling the same number to rectify them. She also had to provide various forms and certificates which had to be processed before she could access her claim.

She said: "I do not feel ill or unwell as such, otherwise I might not have had the strength and perseverance to persist with my claim. And nor do I have hearing loss or a speech impairment, which would make a telephone interview impossible.

"It is a scandal that the system is so complicated. It is likely to fail the very people who are most in need of help. I suspect this may be a deliberate Government ploy to reduce the number of benefit claims and reduce the overall cost of welfare. If so this should be publicised and shown for what it is - the Government withholding funds from sick and needy people through a bureaucratic claim system."

A Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said: "It is simply not true that the Government is trying to stop people claiming benefits through the process of applying for ESA. In assessing someone's claim for benefit we need detailed information of their medical condition and circumstances to establish whether they are eligible for the support.

"We offer a number of ways to fill out the claim form: by an 0800 telephone number, by textphone for those with hearing or speech problems or a form that can be filled in online and put in the post."
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All they care about is scrounger stories. You have to set yourself on fire in the Jobcentre to get any other sort of coverage.
 
treelover said:
Not here, but shocking and I suspect something that US companies like UNUM will move towards

and the politicians are saying people should have private unemployment insurance!
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It's illegal, currently. Even in Germany
They can tell/ask them to leave a scheme, but they can't force them off it. Unfortunately, consumers tend to be sheep, so if someone phones you up and says "look, you're costing us too much, so your premium iis going up by 300%" some people will leave the scheme, often without thinking about who else is going to insure them.
 
Unum have said they're not interested in personal health insurance as much as employee and business based health insurance. I have a link for this some where down the back of my faves. I'll have a rummage.
 
treelover said:
Not here, but shocking and I suspect something that US companies like UNUM will move towards

and the politicians are saying people should have private unemployment insurance!
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Ah UNUM .
UNUM = ATOS ?

I find it difficult to keep up to speed (part of my medical probs) but I'm sort of thinking UNUM beget ATOS - do I think correctly?
 
Ah Yardie. The UNUM/ATOS connection is as heinous as we think. When the aylward biopsychobillshit was first being thrust down the throats of our politicians it was UNUM right there lobbying the DWP back in the 90/00s. One of UNUMS CEOs was/is now an ATOS CEO.

Just a few articles from Black Triangle.
 
Changes to Unum's income protection offer
March 2012

Income protection specialist, Unum, has signalled its commitment to focusing on the employer-paid benefits market with the removal from sale of its Individual income protection products. It is retaining its market-leading Executive income protection offering, which is an employer paid product that will be offered alongside its award-winning Group products.
"We believe the workplace is the best place for workers to get income protection," comments Marco Forato, Chief Marketing Officer. "It makes cover more affordable and also enables individuals with pre-existing conditions or high risk people to get cover they may not be approved for with an individual policy.
 
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