Why restrictions on Personal Independence Payment should not go ahead

Sun,26 February 2017
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In her latest blog, DR UK CEO Liz Sayce says that proposed changes to PIP are bad news for disabled people, both because of the financial cost and the knock-on effects on other outcomes that the Government is explicitly aiming to address.

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Changes to PIP

For more on the changes to PIP see our updated PIP Guide

Disability Rights UK in the media on PIP changes

Friday, 24 February

BBC 5 Live 1pm

Mirror: Tory ministers have rewritten the law to deny increased disability benefit payments to more than 150,000 people

Financial Times: May faces fight over £3.7bn worth of disability payments

Saturday, 25 February

LBC

BBC online news

Sunday 26 February

 “I” newspaper

Monday, 27 February

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