PIP overhaul for older people
PIP overhaul for older people
by Guest Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:57 pm
Pensioners freed from disability benefits reviews, says Rudd
Minister’s overhaul of personal independence payments does not go far enough, say charities
Hundreds of thousands of pensioners will no longer have to undergo reviews to carry on getting their disability benefits, Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, will say on Tuesday.
Rudd is to announce the overhaul of personal independence payments (Pip) for older people, after years of complaints about the system, which requires many claimants to repeatedly prove their entitlement to benefits.
The decision means around 270,000 pensioners who are in receipt of personal independence payments will carry on getting them without having to be reassessed in future.
Rudd will make the announcement in her first speech on disability benefits since being appointed.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/04/pensioners-freed-from-disability-benefits-reviews-says-rudd
Minister’s overhaul of personal independence payments does not go far enough, say charities
Hundreds of thousands of pensioners will no longer have to undergo reviews to carry on getting their disability benefits, Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, will say on Tuesday.
Rudd is to announce the overhaul of personal independence payments (Pip) for older people, after years of complaints about the system, which requires many claimants to repeatedly prove their entitlement to benefits.
The decision means around 270,000 pensioners who are in receipt of personal independence payments will carry on getting them without having to be reassessed in future.
Rudd will make the announcement in her first speech on disability benefits since being appointed.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/04/pensioners-freed-from-disability-benefits-reviews-says-rudd
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Re: PIP overhaul for older people
by Guest Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:54 pm
Rudd’s disability benefits move is nothing more than political gaslighting
Ending reviews for older people’s Pip is simply the government trying to hide its grossly negligent decisions
Reform of the disability benefits system is vital, and long overdue. As Rudd herself is due to say: “The benefits system should be the ally of disabled people” that protects us when we need it most. But today’s announcement does nowhere near enough to achieve that. Worse, it is yet more smoke and mirrors to hide the grossly negligent decisions that led us here.
It is akin to political gaslighting, in which a minister proudly delivers a new policy, insisting it will make life better for disabled people, when they are in fact simply tweaking the disastrous measures they themselves have forced onto us. Disabled people of all ages urgently need accurate assessments, logical exemptions from retesting, and a more efficient, humane process. Another grand speech by this government will get us nowhere.
Also see comments underneath article
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/05/rudd-disability-benefits-political-gaslighting-older-people
Ending reviews for older people’s Pip is simply the government trying to hide its grossly negligent decisions
Reform of the disability benefits system is vital, and long overdue. As Rudd herself is due to say: “The benefits system should be the ally of disabled people” that protects us when we need it most. But today’s announcement does nowhere near enough to achieve that. Worse, it is yet more smoke and mirrors to hide the grossly negligent decisions that led us here.
It is akin to political gaslighting, in which a minister proudly delivers a new policy, insisting it will make life better for disabled people, when they are in fact simply tweaking the disastrous measures they themselves have forced onto us. Disabled people of all ages urgently need accurate assessments, logical exemptions from retesting, and a more efficient, humane process. Another grand speech by this government will get us nowhere.
Also see comments underneath article
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/05/rudd-disability-benefits-political-gaslighting-older-people
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