Major changes to PIP disability benefits

Jack_bauer24

Really not good news 

Instead of cash payments, PIP could be replaced by vouches and people who claim PIP could have the benefit stopped and made to have treatments instead and being forced into work.

Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is set to announce plans to overhaul the way disability benefit works in a statement today. (April 29).

Major changes to PIP disability benefits planned in government shake-up - including cash payments replaced with vouchers | The Sun

MattMattMattUK

This is also a discussion about policy, not about helping people claim, which likely means it will be deleted shortly. 

MSE_James

I posted this on a similar thread last week:

Hi all 

We understand that the as we approach the election the news will be full of more and more policy proposals that - if they were ever implemented - might affect people directly, but please keep in mind the guiding principle of this board which is that it's about entitlement not policy. 

It's natural that people will want to ask the 'what if' questions about any potential changes, but we will have to close or remove threads that turn into more general political discussions.

So please keep as focussed as possible on helping each other with the practical matters of benefits entitlement under the rules as they stand now, whatever the news headlines of the day might say about what could change in future.

If rules do change, then MSE and this community will be here to help everyone navigate the next steps.