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The turning point?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...=FBCNETTXT9038

Some interesting points:

Nathalie Lieven QC highlighted that there were very high levels of appeals against all decisions not to award the Employment and Support Allowance (the new Incapacity Benefit), currently running at about 40% of unsuccessful claims, and very high levels of decisions being overturned on appeal (also around 40%), describing this as a "highly inefficient and undesirable situation".

Claimants with mental health problems were less likely to understand the need to gather extra medical evidence from their doctor in support of their claim, they might have less insight into their own conditions, were more likely to have chaotic lifestyles, and were less well-equipped to make phone calls to organisations that might support them, she said.
Because they were also often reluctant to tell people about their mental health problems, they were often not very good at summarising the nature of their illness, sometimes downplaying its severity.
"By the very nature of the condition, they are more likely to find the process of appealing very difficult and it may be very detrimental to their condition," she said.

The nail in the coffin for the WCA:

The court hearing came the day after the British Medical Association (BMA) called for the WCA to be scrapped on the grounds that it was causing distress to thousands of people with long-term health conditions who were being deemed fit for work.