People in Scotland with lifelong disabilities will no longer face benefit tests
Nicola Sturgeon: doing more for people with disabilities than Boris Johnson.
The UK’s Conservative government – particularly its prime minister – are first to disparage the Scottish National Party but fall behind that organisation in the implementation of policy.
The Tories have been promising to ditch benefit reassessments of people with lifelong conditions but look at this – the SNP got there first:
Disabled people in Scotland with serious lifelong conditions will no longer have to attend reassessments to continue receiving their benefits.
The Scottish government will begin taking over adult disability benefits from the UK government next week.
Currently, people with lifelong conditions such as being blind have to be reassessed to keep their benefits.
The Scottish government said it would have a more “compassionate” approach.
The pilot for the new payment will begin in Dundee, the Western Isles and Perth and Kinross from 21 March.
People already receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) from the UK Government’s Department for Work and Pensions do not need to apply for the new payment from Social Security Scotland.
They will be automatically transferred on to the new system from the summer, the Scottish government’s social security minister Ben Macpherson said.
He said the new Adult Disability Payment would make a number of changes to assessment.
Mr Macpherson said: “If they have a disability or a long-term health condition that is unlikely to change, we are looking to provide indefinite awards, which means that people will not need to reapply for their benefit or be reviewed.”
Source: Lifelong Disabilities Will Not Face Benefit Tests | Same Difference
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Fascist tories are having another bout of mass fascist tory hysteria because disabled/those women and men with long term severe medical conditions will be given the right to the state financial aid without having their lives constantly controlled and monitored by the UK fascist tory fake government!
However I hope this has been specifically defined by the Scottish government because ‘If they have a disability or a long-term health condition that is unlikely to change’ does give government officials right to challenge ‘unlikely to change’ by claiming ‘well advances in medical science means x condition can be mitigated so therefore we are reducing/denying state financial aid to claimaints!
The fascist tories will try everything they can to bring the Scottish government back once more under their fascist control. So the battle for disabled/long term ill women’s and men’s right to state financial aid will continue to be subjected to fascist tory lies they are all ‘scroungers!’