'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs

Committee outlines assessment failings, including woman who was asked why she had not killed herselfA “substantial minority” of long-term disability benefit claimants are being failed by an assessment system that is too often undermined by basic errors, insensitivity and ignorance about people’s conditions, MPs have said.A report by the work and pensions select committee highlighted a person with Down’s syndrome asked when they “caught” it, a woman reporting f