Two hated mega-firms are being handed £170million of fresh taxpayer cash to run “dysfunctional” benefit assessments, the Mirror can reveal.
Atos and Capita have had their lucrative contracts with the government extended for the FOURTH time without going out to competition.
It means the outsourcing giants will keep assessing Brits for Personal Independent Payment (PIP), the UK’s main disability benefit, until March 2024 - nearly seven years after their deals were meant to expire in 2017.
