Call to halt fitness-for-work test for disabled people as court upholds ruling
Work capability assessment disadvantages people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and autism, finds court of appeal
The Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the court of appeal is based. The court has upheld a ruling that had been challenged by the DWP. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
The fitness-for-work test used to determine whether hundreds of thousands of disabled people are eligible to claim sickness benefits puts people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and autism at a disadvantage, the court of appeal has found, upholding an earlier ruling that had been challenged by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Three charities – Rethink Mental Illness, Mind and the National Autistic Society – welcomed the judgement and called for the government to stop using the "flawed assessment" immediately until this problem was fixed.........
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