Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment thereby saving £7billion a year. A reassessment of long-term recipients was expected to start in 2009 but the start was delayed until 2011 while the test's criteria were reviewed. In 2012, the DWP's handling of its contract with Atos was the subject of a critical report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The Public Accounts Committee heard that in that year the DWP had paid Atos £112m to carry out WCAs. The chair of the committee told the BBC that the DWP got "far too many decisions wrong on claimants’ ability to work" and that this came at a "considerable
Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment points after the tribunals had independently assessed their claims. A 2012 study of 28,000 tribunal hearings analysed the reasons for overturning the DWP's decisions: In 2013, the Work Programme firms responsible for training people in the Work-Related Activity Group said that, despite the modifications that had been made to the test since 2008, they still had "ongoing concerns about the accuracy of the WCA". Professor Dame Carol Black advised the government on back-to-work policy between 2006 and 2016. She said of the WCA: "I don't think anyone thinks it has been a success". Conversely, the DWP has said that a