GOVERNMENT ALLOWS PRIVATE AMERICAN COMPANY TO DELIVER A BLOW TO KIRKLEES RESIDENTS
America's highest paid caseworker operating out of his lair in Reston Virginia has decided that anyone who is sick in Kirklees will have to travel to Halifax to be assessed for benefits.
Richard Montoni is the highly paid CEO of MAXIMUS the for profit company that the Conservative Government use to stop people getting the help they need when they can't work.
MAXIMUS is a company with a revenue of £1.7b that is set up to make profits from governments privatisation agenda. They are paid by the Conservative Government so have no interest in providing a service to people in need.
We are happy to support Healthwatch Kirklees campaign to save the ESA health assessment centre in Huddersfield, their plea for help is added below.
We would like your support on our campaign to save the ESA
health assessment centre in Huddersfield.
What’s the issue?
Healthwatch Kirklees has received written confirmation from the
Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) that the Huddersfield Assessment Centre
for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments (WCA) is
expected to close in June/July 2018.
We have been informed by DWP that a decision has been made to merge the Huddersfield Assessment Centre with the Halifax Assessment Centre and that it was fully impacted by Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), who we have discovered is a company belonging to MAXIMUS which is global private corporation that has steadily built up a portfolio of multi-million pound government contracts.
The Halifax Assessment centre will provide the assessments for
both Calderdale and Kirklees residents.
Why are we covering this issue?
After listening to the concerns of partners, community groups
and local ESA claimants we are concerned that the decision to close the
Huddersfield Assessment Centre will negatively impact the nearly 18,000 ESA
claimants residing in Kirklees.
We would like the DWP to ensure that the Huddersfield Assessment Centre to remains open in Huddersfield.
What you can do to support the campaign
Send a letter to the DWP
We have now written a letter to Esther McVey (see attached) who
is the Secretary for Work and Pensions, to bring to her attention the unfair
decision of closing the Huddersfield Assessment Centre and how this would
affect the 18,000 ESA claimants in Kirklees.
We would encourage other organisations and individuals to get
involved and share their experiences/stories by using our template letter. You
can either post a paper copy of the letter or send it via email.
Please let us know when you have posted or emailed
your letter, so that we can add your name to the list of supporters of this
campaign.
Here is a link to all the information
regarding this issue on our website.
