Disability benefits: PIPs should be for 'really disabled'

[aw248]

Disability benefits should go to "really disabled people" not those "taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety", a key Theresa May aide says.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39097019

[sadone]

Disgusting ignorant crap. This government just gets worse every day, and once we're completely cut off from Europe it will only get worse.

[Bazooka Boo]

What utter tripe......I rank the BBC and their morality second to that of the Daily Fail.

 

Their comments are purely designed to be just as divisive and inflammation as this government.

[Cpt Scarlet]

What comments from the BBC?

[stu007]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/26/no-10-policy-head-george-freeman-says-disability-payments-should/

 

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-02-26/theresa-mays-head-of-policy-criticised-over-pip-comments/

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefits-george-freeman-really-disabled-people-anxiety-pills-depression-mental-health-a7600931.html

[mikeymack2002]

Have you heard about this gov white paper to come out?*

 

It's cane the disabled and vulnerable again.

 

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/debbie-abrahams/dangerous-new-changes-planned-to-force-sick-people-into-work-or-into-poverty

 

 

‘Dangerous’ new changes planned to force sick people into work – or into poverty.

 

DEBBIE ABRAHAMS 24 February 2017

 

The government promised to help disabled people back into work.

 

They’re failing – and now it looks like they’re targeting those who need higher levels of support.

[mikeymack2002]

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/debbie-abrahams/dangerous-new-changes-planned-to-force-sick-people-into-work-or-into-poverty

[stu007]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/27/heidi-allen-becomes-first-tory-mp-join-revolt-cuts-disability/

[aw248]

http://news.sky.com/story/housing-benefits-cuts-plan-for-18-to-21s-revived-by-government-10788982

[Sparks_]

They wont be happy till all disabled are wiped out!

[Nystagmite]

Talk about ignorant. As with any disability, you have some people who manage fine and others with the same condition who have quite severe problems. The name means virtually nothing.

 

They constantly say they're trying to give PIP to people most in need, which is a load of rubbish and I was lucky I didn't get into debt when they stopped mine.

[aw248]

Spending freeze to cut extra £4bn from benefits as raft of new benefit cuts kick in

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-freeze-cuts-austerity-measures-welfare-state-inflation-a7661196.html

[sadone]

Oh what a showers this government is....

[tommy456]

Oh what a showers this government is....

Lib /lab/con are all the same underneath the only thing different is their name , they have to find money for their cultural enrichment /replacement program

[aw248]

DWP asked disability benefit claimant why she had not killed herself

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-benefit-sanctions-mental-health-suicide-killer-herself-assessments-pip-a7682991.html

[aw248]

Disability benefits: PIPs assessment firms 'to get extra £200m'

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39599331#

[aw248]

"Barbaric" 50-page PIP benefits application was reason disabled woman took her own life, claims sister

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/barbaric-50-page-pip-benefits-10403682

[Nystagmite]

Awful.

[aw248]

Punished for being ill: ‘Benefit changes made my illness much worse’

 

Read more at: http://www.lep.co.uk/news/health/punished-for-being-ill-benefit-changes-made-my-illness-much-worse-1-8752619

[Nystagmite]

Similar happened to me - the whole process made me ill. I was made out to be a liar, my friend was and so was my GP and ENT doctor.

[aw248]

'Selling everything' because of universal credit

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41590794/selling-everything-because-of-universal-credit

[Nystagmite]

'Selling everything' because of universal credit

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41590794/selling-everything-because-of-universal-credit

 

That is just awful.

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Ministers back down in legal battle over disability benefits

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42745616#

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Every person receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have their claim reviewed, the Department for Work and Pensions has said.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42862904

[Nystagmite]

The idea of PIP was supposedly to save money. Looks like they've managed to do the complete opposite.

 

Are we all going to be forced to go through the farce that is a face to face with ATOS?