Means Testing PIP

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I have heard yesterday the rumour that PIP may be means tested moving forward and that the PM will mention this in 17 November in his statement. This terrifies the life out of me. Surely it would be discriminatory to means test a disability benefit. also, wouldn't this be incredibly difficult to navigate and what criteria would they use? If this were to be the case, then what next? Means Testing Child Benefit? So worrying .
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The answer was "The right hon. Gentleman is inviting me, in a whole host of areas, to break with what has been a very long-standing and quite correct convention that Ministers simply do not provide a running commentary about what may or may not be in a major fiscal event."
That is an answer that has grown legs and run, and is a very long way indeed from it definitely being in the PM's statement on 17th November.
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