From Disabled People Against Cuts:
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the replacement for Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
While DLA worked to provide support for the extra costs of being disabled, and the system worked well, the whole PIP system is rotten to the core.
The whole purpose of making the change from DLA to PIP is to remove people’s entitlements to the vital support which DLA provided to help enable disabled people to live a life on more even terms with non disabled people.
With the PIP assessment regime now in place, thousands of people have already lost out and reports of the shoddy nature of the assessments are growing every week. While the success rate at tribunal is high, it is taking up to 6 months or longer for cases to be heard – leaving disabled people struggling.
Read more here and find out about tomorrow’s protest events and online action.
I’m sorry I could not attend. Anyhow, it strikes me that assessment, welfare reform, and ‘gate keepers’ decision-making should be about human rights, not assessing the life out of people.
Absolutely right.
I also thought PIP was (ha ha) supposed to be about supporting people in their everyday lives, not making people prove whether or not they could do things. I’ve been to a couple of assessments now and they seemed extremely similar to ESA ones to me.
As far back as 2005 (?), Benefits and Work Publishing reported Atos computer controlled nurses to replace DLA doctors