Work Capability Assessment centre, but occasionally in the claimant's home. Since 2015, testing has been performed by the US outsourcing firm Maximus. The DWP pays Maximus £200 for each report. At the face-to-face assessments, the assessors – who are nurses, doctors or physiotherapists – are guided and prompted by a computer programme, designed by Atos in conjunction with the DWP, called the 'Logic-integrated Medical Assessment' or 'LiMA'. A large amount of lifestyle data and some clinical information is obtained from the claimant and is entered into the computer by the assessor, mostly by selecting pre-determined 'one click' options from an on-screen menu. As
Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment of policy from 2010 until 2015, declared: "We need to think again about how we assess work capability" because "capability assessors too often have a culture of disbelief about disability, especially mental illness". Parliament's Office of Science and Technology has analysed the WCA's performance; it found that "the number of fit-for-work decisions being overturned on appeal has led to questions about the reliability of the assessment process". Between 2011 and 2013, around 40% of claimants found 'fit for work' appealed to a tribunal and around 40% of those appeals were successful. A 2012 study of 28,000 tribunal hearings analysed the