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Proposed changes to PIP and other benefits

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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

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  • Bit confused - did today change things further? A government dude I just heard interviwed on the BBC appeared to say that everyone on PIP will be forced to go to a Doctor's appointment for reassessment... no timeline for that, but being the pessimist I am about this stuff it does make me fear that whatever time we thought we had left in our current award period might be cut short as soon as there's a summons to whoever the interview is with? Presumably it's not a GP with some capacity for empathy but rather someone more like a one-person equivalent of those humiliating tribunal panels? 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Broader context for this is that the Spring Statement was made today, I assume some of the mechanisms can now be disclosed... causing huge anxiety across the land I'm sure!

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    Broader context for this is that the Spring Statement was made today, I assume some of the mechanisms can now be disclosed... causing huge anxiety across the land I'm sure!

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