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Proposed changes to PIP and other benefits

Bunny

In case anyone would like to read the Government's Green Paper with full details of the proposed changes (rather than relying only on media reports), it can be found here:

Department for Work and Pensions - Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper

Parents

  • Just listened to the statment from the Government, and as far as I can work out you need to score 4 points in Daily Living to qualify for PIP from 2028, but it is currently set at 8 points minimum?

    But Universal Credit is to be changed for LCW part.

    Am I correct in thinking this?

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  • Just listened to the statment from the Government, and as far as I can work out you need to score 4 points in Daily Living to qualify for PIP from 2028, but it is currently set at 8 points minimum?

    But Universal Credit is to be changed for LCW part.

    Am I correct in thinking this?

Children
  • in reply to Inglewood

    If I haven't misunderstood, it wouldn't matter if (for example) you scored 12 points across 6 categories, if at least one of those wasn't a 4 on its own. Near impossible for the autistic applicants in many cases. 

  • in reply to Inglewood

    I thought she said 2026? Maybe implying that many people's current 5 years or whatever would be terminated early?  2028 was mentioned too though, so maybe I just got confused. This can lead nowhere good in an already brutalising and dehumanised system for meeting a threshold they've made very difficult to reach.