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PIP fails to provide support disabled people need, and assessments cause harm and distress, survey shows

Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new surve…

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Late-night release of draft PIP recommendations raises fresh fears of future cuts

Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest m…

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Burnham ‘must pay heed’ to new research which shows public do not back cuts to disability benefits

The Labour government risks alienating voters if it ignores new research which shows the public strongly oppose cuts to spending on disability benefits, disabled people’s organisations warned the p…

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Late-night release of draft PIP recommendations raises fresh fears of future cuts

Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest m…

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PIP fails to provide support disabled people need, and assessments cause harm and distress, survey shows

Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new surve…

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Reform’s Jenrick ignores PIP fraud evidence and claims it is ‘common sense’ that claimants are ‘gaming the system’

The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gamin…

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Recommendations for disability benefits are ruined by attempt at ‘non-cash’ support

What a shame the government has tried to shoehorn a daft idea onto a series of apparently-progressive plans for changes to disability benefits.

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Welsh government raises ‘significant concerns’ with UK minister over PIP review coproduction

The Welsh government has raised “significant concerns” about the level of coproduction provided by the ongoing review of personal independence payment (PIP) and has called for an independent, disab…

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PIP review: Disabled people’s organisations raise concerns over ‘less than honest’ and ‘diluted’ report

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms Review and have warned that it has “diluted” disabled people’s concerns …

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Minister is asked why he expects disabled people to fund their own PIP review engagement events

The disability minister has been asked why he appears to have provided no funding for a plan to increase engagement among disabled people and their organisations with his review of the personal ind…