DWP confirms plans to change PIP assessments in crackdown on benefit cheats birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DWP PIP warning as claimants face £950 income gap in new reforms birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DWP PIP claimants hit out at Rishi Sunak plans to cut their payments as 'insane' birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DWP PIP claims to stop for thousands of people under tough new eligibility rules birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fourth, we need to match the support people need to the actual conditions they have and help people live independently and remove the barriers they face. but we need to look again at how we do this through personal independence payments. i worry about it being misused. and its purpose is to contribute to the extra costs people face as they go about their daily lives. take, for example, those who need money for aid or assistance with things like hand rails or stair lifts. often they re already available at low cost for free, and they re one-off costs. so it probably isn t right we re paying an ongoing amount every year. we also need to look specifically at the way personal independence payments support those with mental health conditions. since 2019, the number of people claiming pip citing anxiety or depression as their main condition has doubled with over
5,000 new awards on average every single month. but for all the challenges they face, it s not clear they have the same degree of increased living costs as those with physical conditions, and the whole system is undermined by the way people are asked to make subjective and unverifiable claims about their capability. so in the coming days, we will publish a consultation on how we move away from that to a more objective and rigorous approach that focus on support on those with the greatest needs and extra costs. we will do that by being more precise about the conditions that should be eligible for pip. we ll consider linking that assessment more closely to a personal s condition and requiring greater medical evidence to substantiate a claim. all of which will make the system fairer and harder to exploit. and we ll also consider whether spl people with mental health
Five new DWP benefit changes announced by Rishi Sunak and what they mean for you birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Conditions should get pip in the same way through cash transfers or whether they d actually be better supported to lead happier, healthier, and more independent lives through access to treatment like talking therapies or respite care. i want to be completely clear about what i m saying here. this is not about making the welfare system less generous to people who face very real extra costs for mental health conditions. for those with the greatest needs we actually want to make it easier to access with fewer requirements. and beyond the welfare system, we re delivering the largest expansion in mental health services in a generation with almost 5 billion pounds of extra funding over the past five years and a near doubling of mental health training places. but our overall approach is about saying that people with less severe mental health conditions should be expected to engage in the world of work.
DWP could give extra boost to PIP payments in new cost of living proposal birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DWP stops PIP disability benefit payments for 320,000 claimants birminghammail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from birminghammail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.