Shocking Announcement: Disability Benefits To Be Slashed For 640,000 People | the void

Last Updated: March 11, 2016By

A “low, one-off cost”, according to the DWP.

The government is set to slash benefits intended to meet the additional cost of living with a disability warning that up to 640,000 people could be affected by 2021.

The shocking announcement follows a recent consultation into Personal Independence Payments (PIP) – the benefit currently being rolled out to replace Disability Living Allowance.  This benefit is awarded based on a points system which assesses addional costs incurred due to disability such as care or mobility needs.  In a press release issued this morning the DWP have said that in future the numbers of points awarded to people who need some form of aid or appliance to help them dress or manage toilet needs will be halved.

According the department this is because much of the equipment needed by disabled people to manage these activites is available for one one off purchase at a low price or can sometimes be accessed for free from local councils or the NHS.  The key word here being sometimes.  If a disabled person needs a ceiling hoist to help them dress, or a specially adapted toilet, and their local authority will not pay for it, then unless they can find the money they will not be able to do these things unassisted.  And this money may have to come out of meagre out-of-work sickness benefits, soon to be slashed to just over £70 a week for some disabled people.

Source: Shocking Announcement: Disability Benefits To Be Slashed For 640,000 People | the void

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3 Comments

  1. mili68 March 11, 2016 at 2:33 pm - Reply

    Tweeted @melissacade68

  2. jeffrey davies March 11, 2016 at 5:20 pm - Reply

    well he did say 600000 off benefits old devil eyes rtu ids has there was over 600000 on the dla car scheme

  3. mohandeer March 12, 2016 at 1:02 am - Reply

    So the DWP has already identified how many people will NOT receive the PIP? Would this be another example of “targets” which the government, IDS and DWP emphatically states do not exist?

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