92:) claimed about 160,000 people receiving PIP would be affected by proposed changes. Phil Reynolds of the consortium said, "Across the DBC we have had our helpline and advice services inundated by calls about PIP since it was introduced. Instead of supporting disabled people, the benefits system seems increasingly rigged against them. The whole system needs urgent improvement, in order to accurately assess the support they need. Disabled people cannot afford to wait." Charities that represent mental health and learning disability groups claim the changes do not recognise that the costs connected with those conditions are as severe as for other impairments. the changes were reversed in January 2018 following the decision not to appeal a high court ruling.
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activities and level of mobility. Claimants are also required to undergo periodic re-assessments to ensure ongoing eligibility for the benefit; depending on the type of disability, a person may be given a short award of up to two years or longer PIP award which would last for up to five or ten years. The PIP Assessment Guide (Updated on 1 May 2016) states: 'It would not be practical for the assessment to take account of the impact of a health condition or impairment on all everyday activities, nor to seek to include all possible areas where extra costs may be generated.'
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73:(DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England. A full roll-out across Great Britain was planned for October 2013. However, this roll-out was delayed – primarily because the main contractor, Atos, wanted to ensure that the process was as reliable as possible; also, the assessments took much longer than expected, and assessors were hard to recruit - and as a result ministers announced that the roll-out would happen more gradually than originally planned.
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claims. "We're concerned about the number of people with MS being inappropriately reassessed, especially when we know assessments can cause stress and anxiety, and in some cases exacerbate MS symptoms. With more than 100,000 people living with MS in the UK, the PIP system needs to accurately reflect
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has been critical of PIP and, while it expressed support in principle for assessing claimants more carefully, took the view that the assessment criteria were flawed, would cause undue hardship to disabled people and were too strongly focused on cutting welfare budgets. In
November 2021 it launched a
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produced a report about its members experiences of the test in
September 2015. 1,780 participated. 42% of those who had a face-to-face assessment said the hidden symptoms of the condition had not been taken into account. More than a third said face-to-face assessments had caused their condition to
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England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 2018 37% of the 220,000 face-to-face assessments conducted by Capita were rated by DWP auditors as of an unacceptable standard, to need changes, or demonstrating that the assessor had failed to carry out the role properly. There was also concern at
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Parliament following a number of controversial decisions in which disabled individuals were denied benefits and required to look for work, work they could
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said she would challenge four cases of patients with multiple sclerosis being called for reassessment despite their illness worsening. "MS is a progressive condition. They're never going to be any better than they are at the moment, so they should never be asked to go for a reassessment. Some of
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The PIP daily living component is paid at one of two rates: standard or enhanced. Individuals may be entitled to the daily living component if they need help with daily living skills including preparing or eating food, dressing and undressing, or making decisions about money, assessed on a points
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PIP is not available to children under 16 and PIP claimants must apply (if at all) before State
Pension age. New PIP claims cannot be made after that age. DLA continues for children, and for existing recipients aged 64 or over on 8 April 2013; other people currently receiving DLA will be asked to
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British people with Parkinson's lost some or all their benefit after reassessments, but got payments reinstated after appeal. "It's absolutely crucial that the DWP looks again at the broken PIP assessment to ensure people with long-term conditions get the support they so
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invites them to apply for PIP. DLA continues for children. In
Scotland, new benefits called the Child Disability Payment and Adult Disability Payment have been launched. It will gradually be the main benefit for disabled people with a different criteria than PIP.
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that is intended to help working age adults with the extra costs of living with a health condition or a disability. It is available in
England, Wales and Northern Ireland but not in Scotland where Adult Disabled Payment (ADP) is claimed instead.
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the realities of living with a fluctuating and progressive condition. Having a disability like MS is hard enough. People should be able to rely on support without fear of having it taken away," said Laura
Wetherly of the MS Society.
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ruled that restrictions to the mobility component which stated that psychological distress could not be considered in deciding if a person could walk discriminated against people with mental health problems. In
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campaign to give disabled people the right to request an assessor who is a specialist in their condition, after it was revealed that successful appeals were running at an average of more than 12,000 per month.
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and are invited to claim PIP from their 16th birthday; it can be claimed by adults under the State Pension age, and people already on the benefit will continue to receive it after they retire.
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these people are still able to walk to a certain extent, so they get themselves in, just about, and then they're being told, 'You look fine,'" she said. Phil Reynolds of
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desperately need, rather than rigging the system against them," he said. Almost half multiple sclerosis patients claiming PIP must be reassessed inside two years, the
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP): What you'll get
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