I used to work for dwp.

1) it isn't doctors who make the assessments here, it is at best a nurse, although this is rare. It is now someone labelled a "health care professional" most of the time, which is basically someone who is a low paid administrator who has a bare minimum of training allowed to say they have some degree of health care understanding. Essentially they are bean counters and target hitters though not actually mainly tasked with patient need as their primary goal, but at denying funds implicitly explained not that way in official literature, but explained as accurate needs assessment and responsible tax use and other such stuff.

2) whilst there are people doing this job who do a reasonable assesment, there are absolutely target hitting liars and outright sociopaths also doing it who want to look good and try and seek promotions and will absolutely lie and treat disabled people like dirt doing that job. There are also massively ignorant people doing it, and prejudiced people doing it, and so on. This is what happens when govt awards contract to private sector bargain basement bid with a huge emphasis on cost reduction with insufficient oversight and only lip service to fairness.

I am sure some of the personal stories are exaggeration, or sometimes misunderstanding, or some of them are people who fucked up navigating a very complex system which is opaque to their level of education and partially at least screwing themselves over by mistake.

But there is an actual massive problem with this shit, and you should be outraged at the cop out, cheap ass, ideological blame the poor, sick and disabled for the countries problems mentality that governments have been pushing here..

And the buck doesn't stop at the tories alone here either, the whole reassessment of health benefits stuff and these ideas originated under Tony Blair, but the tories do also love it too.

No they aren't doctors lying and being deceptive and risking their careers, doctors aren't that stupid.