DWP is going ahead with plans for single assessment for different sickness/disability benefits
This is a bad move – and not just because it would merge the assessment systems of benefits that have …
Tag Archives: Personal Independence Payment
Complaints about disability benefit assessments up 6,000% in three years
These are damning figures. But what I find more upsetting is the way The Independent (in this case) suggests they have …
Benefit-related deaths: Why can the Tories provide SOME death counts but not others?
Government minister Justin Tomlinson raised more questions than he answered when he responded to questions on benefit-related deaths last week. …
The DWP, disability, and denials: ‘hostile environment’ for claimants is no mistake
Are you getting tired of hearing the Conservative government claiming the latest tragedy to befall sick or disabled people is …
Disability deaths scandal: Tories admit thousands of deaths, months after PIP refusals. How do they know?
This is an oddity. Some of you may remember that, back in 2015, I managed to force the Conservative government …
While we were blithering about Brexit, the Tories were punishing the poor – AGAIN
Tory attempts at sleight-of-hand really are astonishing. We’ve just had two days in which all attention has been concentrated on …
Mother of man who was denied PIP became so stressed she smashed her car into a tree
A woman has claimed she drove her car into a tree because she was “stressed” to the point of distraction …
Calls mount for Universal Credit to be axed as McVey admits people ‘will be worse off’
Long-term readers of This Site will be pleased to know that Mrs Mike was recently awarded Personal Independence Payments, at …
People with disabilities SHOULD fear losing benefits because they’re too active. Even cancer patients can’t get them
If this information is accurate, you can’t blame people with disabilities. Only days ago, we learned about a woman with …
Benefits assessor told woman with stage 4 cancer: ‘You’re not sick enough’
Paige Garratt may very well be the one that got away, as far as the Department for Work and Pensions …