Private firms rake in half a BILLION pounds for cruel disability benefit assessments : Daily Mirror.

Within these contracts to Atos and Capita there should be a quality standard in that if an appeal is won by the claimants then these organisations should have to pay back some or all of their fees received. This would go some way the ensure that the assessments were subject to good quality, for if they were then the appeal success rate would not be so high, or is it the benefits themselves are not fit for purpose as well as the organisations conducting the assessments.