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Disabled activists demand benefit interviews are taped to stop staff cover ups
ALL disability benefits interviews must be taped, activists have demanded.
The call comes amid concerns that officials may be falsely recording events at Personal Independence Payment (Pip) assessments.
Campaigners also say that disabled claimants have soiled themselves or suffered epileptic seizures during their interviews, but agency staff have omitted this from their notes.
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