Disability benefits assessor said claimant was ‘too fat to wipe her behind’

A disability benefits assessor for Capita told an undercover reporter a claimant was ‘too f***ing fat’ to wipe her behind and bragged about making £20,000 a month, a tribunal heard. Alan Barham was caught making the remarks about a disability benefit applicant on Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Great Benefits Row’, broadcast on 11 April 2016. Barham told an undercover trainee assessor, that he filled in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) forms before ever assessing the applicant. The former paramedic was working…