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CHARITY Turn2Us launched a new tool that helps people claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) today.
Nearly one in three disabled people in Britain live in poverty, facing additional costs averaging £1,010 more per month than non-disabled households, according to disability charity Scope.
PIP is designed to help disabled people and those with long-term health conditions with these extra costs, but the National Audit Office reported that some £870 million goes unclaimed each year.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY