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Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions

Rich 11

"The aim, it said, is to cut down the time and cost involved in gathering information the department needs to make a the wrong decision about "the right support" for someone with a health condition or disability."

FTFY.

If they want to cut costs they should cut their assessors' high levels of error, errors which happen even when the person being assessed hands over full documentation from their GP. Cut that and they cut the costs of all those successful appeals.

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